I think of them as stray eyebrows. Lucas u If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? Mankiewicz v 19 v Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank. Baruch u Being powerful is like being a lady. White u Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
They have the best taste that money can buy. Kennedy u The Norwegian language has been described as German spoken underwater. Why should women do it? Housman u Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your children.
How much patience you have, for instance. Adams v 26 v After a while, marriage is a sibling relationship—marked by occasional, and rather regrettable, episodes of incest. Kaufman American playwright u I think the worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon.
And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. Ingersoll u I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. Jerome u In I gave up women and alcohol. It was the worst 20 minutes of my life. What do you want—an adorable pancreas? So far, so good. They speak English and profanity. You die thin. Mencken v 33 v The French, they say, live to eat. The English, on the other hand, eat to die. Peter u A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
Joseph Cossman u An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her. To keep him—two. Gallagher v 41 v Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty.
Is that too much to ask of a millionaire? Naked people have little or no influence on society. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. Everybody drinks water. Me neither. Adams u Restaurant critics—even great critics are like very bad lovers. Lewis v 51 v I used to believe that chiropractors were charlatans, but then I went to one and now I stand corrected. Earl of Gurney: Simple. Why should other planets be any different from this one?
I hate everyone equally. Norman Collie u Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. White u If there is anybody here that I have forgotten to insult, I apologize. Like pigeons, or Catholics.
Johnson u Man is one of the toughest of animated creatures. Only the anthrax bacillus can stand so unfavourable an environment for so long a time. You are rapidly approaching the age when your body, whether it embarrasses you or not, begins to embarrass other people. He has a great idea for a new triangle. They are the best parts. In fact, our bombs are better educated than the average high school graduate. Whitney Brown u Wilde: I shall always regard you as the best critic of my plays.
Tree: But I have never criticized your plays. Humphrey u When I die, I want to go peacefully like my grandfather did—in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car. Sooner or later every asshole gets one. The dead bird does not leave the nest. Just like everyone else. Confucian during which intellectuals protested on behalf of intellectual freedom.
Chicago, that have long been immortalized as settings of the most famous This essay is a modified version of a text that appeared in Dots and Quotes, No.
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