Some one has said that “if you want me to speak two minutes you give me a notification of two weeks if you want me to speak five minutes, I should have a notification of one week, but if you want me to talk all day, here I am.” Quimby … Continue readingĭiscussion opened by H. The crafter of the statement was unidentified: 1900, Transactions of the New Hampshire Medical Society at the One Hundred and Ninth Anniversary, (Held at Concord, New Hampshire on May 31 and June 1, 1900), “Nutrition” by J. In 1900 a doctor employed an instance of the schema while speaking at a convention of the New Hampshire Medical Society. Here are additional selected citations in chronological order. The QI website also has an entry for a popular related quotation: “If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter”. There is a great deal in condensation in these days of compressed yeast and potted ham, and I am reminded of an incident told of Rufus Choate, who being asked to make a speech on a certain occasion said, “If it is to be a minute speech I shall need four weeks in which to prepare, if a half hour speech, then two weeks, but if I am to talk all day I’m ready now.” This version was tripartite however, the third part referred to talking all day instead of speaking for an hour: 1895 December 3, Rockford Daily Register Gazette, It’s Second Birthday: Men’s Sunday Evening Club Properly Celebrates, Quote, Column 2, (GNB ), Rockford, Illinois. … Continue reading Hall ascribed an instance of the saying to Rufus Choate who was an orator and Senator from Massachusetts who died decades earlier in 1859. Hall gave a speech at a meeting of the Men’s Sunday Evening Club as reported in a Rockford, Illinois newspaper. When asked to appear upon some important occasion and deliver a five-minute speech, he said that he had no time to prepare five-minute speeches, but that he could go and speak an hour at any time. Lincoln once made a most apt suggestion applicable to such cases. He ascribed the words to Abraham Lincoln, but this linkage was weak because Lincoln died decades earlier in 1865.This rudimentary version mentioned two different speech lengths instead of four: 1893, Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the Thirtieth Session of the Legislature of the State of California, Volume 1, First Biennial Message of Governor H. The first relevant instance found by QI was spoken in 1893 by the Governor of California. Tracing this family is difficult because of the high variability of the wording. There is a family of statements expressing this central idea, and it has been evolving for more than one hundred years. Quote Investigator: QI has located a match for a close variant quotation in 1918 that was attributed to Woodrow Wilson. Could you search for earlier support of this quotation? This biography was published in 1946, i.e., many years after the death of Wilson in 1924. If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation if fifteen minutes, three days if half an hour, two days if an hour, I am ready now.” (Verified with scans)Ī member of the Cabinet congratulated Wilson on introducing the vogue of short speeches and asked him about the time it took him to prepare his speeches. Here is an excerpt from the book: 1946, The Wilson Era: Years of War and After 1917-1923 by Josephus Daniels, Quote ,The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Macaulay? William Howard Taft? Mark Twain? Anonymous?ĭear Quote Investigator: A biography of President Woodrow Wilson included an entertaining quotation about the preparation time needed for speeches of varying lengths. Woodrow Wilson? Abraham Lincoln? Rufus Choate? Thomas B.
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