Telephone Calls

Famous quotes containing the words telephone and/or calls:

“It is possible that the telephone has been responsible for more business inefficiency than any other agency except laudanum.... In the old days when you wanted to get in touch with a man you wrote a note, sprinkled it with sand, and gave it to a man on horseback. It probably was delivered within half an hour, depending on how big a lunch the horse had had. But in these busy days of rush-rush-rush, it is sometimes a week before you can catch your man on the telephone.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)

“Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away.”
—Jean Racine (1639–1699)