Communication affects all aspects of daily life, offering lots of opportunities for misunderstandings. Thanks to technology, mix-ups can come from cell phone conversations, text messages or e-mails, as well face-to-face chats.

Even music lyrics are misunderstood. One of the classic examples of listener confusion is in a song by Creedence Clearwater Revival. The actual song lyric is "There's a bad moon on the rise." The commonly misheard version of the same line is "There's a bathroom on the right."

For your enjoyment, here are some wise words about talking, listening and understanding:

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"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said."

-- Peter Drucker

"'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."

-- Abraham Lincoln

"Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?"

-- Charles Lindbergh

"I have never developed indigestion from eating my words."

--Winston Churchill

"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."

-- Victor Borge

"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."

-- George Bernard Shaw

"The difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."

-- Mark Twain

"I talk to myself because I like dealing with a better class of people."

-- Jackie Mason

"I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up."

-- Tom Lehrer