Evan Esar's Quote - Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a tw

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Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a tw

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary. – Evan Esar

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Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. – Evan Esar

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Hope is tomorrows veneer over todays disappointment. – Evan Esar

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Political speeches are like steer horns. A point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between. – Alfred E. Neuman

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Always be shorter than anybody dared to hope. – Lord Reading, on speechmaking

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Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record. – Archibald Philip Primrose

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