Humorous QuotationsCommunication: Speaking, Listening

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.	Mark Twain
I like to talk with people who express my thoughts clearly.	Unknown
I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.	Dorothy Parker
If you can't say anything nice about a man, let's hear it.	Unknown
Never call a man fool; borrow from him.	Addison Mizner
A bore is a person who talks when you wish him to listen.	Ambrose Bierce
A bore is a man who spends so much time talking about himself that you can't talk about yourself.	Melville D. Landon
The covers of this book are too far apart.	Ambrose Bierce
Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day.	Kin Hubbard
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.	Samuel Butler
Say what you want and be who you are because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.	Dr. Seuss
No one so thoroughly appreciates the value of constructive criticism as the one who is giving it.	Arthur Robinson
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give, but dreadfully uneasy to take.	Josh Billings
My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.	Jimmy Durante
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.	Charles Caleb Colton