Subject: Communication (Page 12)

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

(1900 – 1965) diplomat & Democratic politician

If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?

(1939 – ) comedian, actress, writer & producer

Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand.

I think TV is very educational; every time someone turns on a TV, I go in the other room and read.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Whenever one word or letter can change the entire meaning of a sentence, the probability of an error being made will be in direct proportion to the embarrassment it will cause.

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

(1903 – 1966) English writer

What Do We Want? Respectful Discourse.
When Do We Want It?!
Now Would Be Agreeable to Me, but I am Interested in Your Opinion.

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

All I had to my name were some letters and all I had in my pocket was a broken compass; I didn’t know which way to turn.

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.

(1909 – 1959) Australian-born American actor

Dyselxics Have More Nuf.

The purpose of the communication is to advance the communicator.

If Lincoln were alive today, he’d roll over in his grave.

(1913 – 2006) 36th U.S. president

In Washington, a man gets up to speak and doesn't say a thing, and the other men disagree with him for three hours.

(1908 – 2002) comedian, radio & television actor

Clairvoyant: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron, namely, that he is a blockhead.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

The future will be better tomorrow.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician

Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

Why is it that when anything goes without saying, it never does?

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Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.

(1867 – 1936) author & humorist

Smuggler: One who neglects his duty to his country.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

(1874 – 1965) English dramatist & novelist