"Atlee was a modest man,
who has much to be modest about."
"Whenever I feel the need to
take some excercise I lie down until the feeling
goes away."
"There's fog on The Channel
(la manche) Europe is isolated."
"Golf, is a good walk ruined."
- Churchill
Lady Astor
said to Churchill: "if I were your
wife I'd put poison in your coffee"
Churchill
replied: "Madam, if I were your husband,
I'd drink it"
Bessie Braddock
said to Churchill: "Winston, you're drunk!"
Churchill
replied: "Bessie, you're ugly, and tomorrow
morning I shall be sober"
"The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone
fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out
again, that would be a calamity."
- Benjamin Disraeli.
I can resist everything except temptation."
- Oscar Wilde
"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his
fools"
- Ernest Hemmingway
"Abstainer: a weak person
who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."
- Ambrose Bierce
"She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech."
- George Bernard Shaw
"I wouldn't belong to a club that accepts people like me as members."
"I've had a perfectly wonderful
evening, but this wasn't it."
"I never forget a face, but in
your case I'll be glad to make an exception"
"Those are my principles. If you
don't like them I have others."
"The secret of life is honesty
and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got
it made."
"She got her good looks from
her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
- Groucho Marx
"A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree."
"Money couldn't buy you friends, but
you get a better class of enemy."
- Spike Milligan
"I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said don't be ridiculous -
you've not met everyone."
- Rodney Dangerfield
"If you don't over indulge in drink, cigarettes and the pleasures of the flesh
it's not that you live longer - it just seems longer.."
- Freud
"You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, started walking five miles a day
when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.."
- Ellen Degeners
"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't
help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies
and death and stuff.."
- Maria Carey
"If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's
research.."
- Wilson Mizner
Barbara Cartland was once
asked by a television interviewer if social class barriers
were less rigid than before. "Of course they are..." she
replied "... or I wouldn't be talking to you.."
"Money
is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."
"I
failed to make the chess team because of my height."
- Woody Allen
"Behind every successful man is a surprised woman."
- Marion Pearson
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