Table Topics at Tonights Toastmasters

In the season of the Holidays, I was tonight’s Table Topics Master at the Woodridge Toastmasters and was slated to come up with some “Quotes” from the holidays, so those contained below are the quotes which were spoke about “impromptu” this evening.

(My sources for these quotes were a random series of google queries :))

• People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas.  ~Author Unknown

• He who breaks a resolution is a weakling;
  He who makes one is a fool.
  ~F.M. Knowles

• We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched.  Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives… not looking for flaws, but for potential.  ~Ellen Goodman

• Expecting the world to treat you fairly
  because you are a good person
  is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you
  because you are a vegetarian.
  -DENNIS WHOLEY:

• “I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.” -Henry Youngman

• “Christmas is the season when you buy this year’s gifts with next year’s money.” –Unknown

• “There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.” –Erma Bombeck

• “The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn’t for any religious reasons. They couldn’t find three wise men and a virgin.” –Jay Leno

• This is not a time for resolutions but for setting of goals.   What is a goal you plan to set for yourself, Personally or Professionally

• Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it.  Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.  ~Richard Lamm

• Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special!  How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer…. Who’d have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?  ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

So, think about these and how would you respond if you’ve been put on the spot to talk (somehow) about these subjects if you were given this quote and were asked to talk about it for 1-2 minutes