Braude's Handbook

Selections from Braude's Handbook of Stories for Toastmasters and Speakers.

Caution
310. Wait till it is night before saying it has been a fine day.
					-French Proverb

Character
327. By nothing do men show their character more than by the things they laugh at.
						-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Charity - philanthropy
337. One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
					-George Eliot

341. Beware of the saint with a open mouth and a closed pocketbook.

347. To pity distres is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
					-Horage Mann, Lectures on education

349. In nothing do men more approach the gods than in doing good to their fellow men.
							-Cicero, Pro Ligario

Choice

383. He who chooses the beginning of a road, also chooses its destination.

Common Interest

428. We didn't all come over on the sam ship, but we're all in the same boat.
					-Bernard M. Baruch

Courage

506. You may be on top of the heap-- but remember you're still part of it.
						-Frances Rodman

Creativity

521. Most men have died without creating; not one has died without destroying.
						-Alexandre Dumas

Silence

2377. Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.
			-John Selden, Table Talk

2383. You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
					-John Morley

Solitude

2411. We walk faster when we walk alone.
			-Napoleon Bonaparte

Truth

2673. When in doubt tell the truth.

2671. Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
				-Mencius

2668. Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
							-Daniel Webster

2666. The truth is always the strongest arguement.
				-Sophocles

2677. The pursuit of truth shall set you free- even if you never catch up with it.

2679. A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
	-William Shenstone.

Tact.

2505. Tact is the unsaid part of what you thinkl its opposite, the unthought part of what you say.

2506. Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden- not silence.

2508 Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Vision

2702. You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.
						-Chales C. Noble

Vigor

2699. The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
	-Theodore Roosevelt

Wealth

2724. The man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
					-Henry David Thoreau

Willingness

2741. The world is full of willing people; some willing to work and the rest willing to let them.
								-Robert Lee Frost