Think twice before you speak - and you'll find everyone talking about something else.

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Many after-dinner speakers remind us that to err is human.

Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had.

Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.

The problem with speeches isn't so much not knowing when to stop, as knowing when not to begin

How shall I tell you of the world you faceStrident with sound of weapons and of hate,Make you aware now of the narrowing spaceBetween the hope of mortal and his fate?