Subject: Characteristics (Page 10)

If men have a smell it's usually an accident.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

If I have an orgasm, I feel that I have to give six weeks of community service to various charities.

(1947 – ) comedian & actor

A skeptic is a person who would ask God for his ID card.


The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

Men are pigs; too bad we own everything.

(1953 – ) comedian & actor

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain—and most fools do.

(1888 – 1955) American writer, lecturer & developer of self-improvement skills

Everyone has a skeleton in their closet; the difference between Bill Clinton and myself is that he has a walk-in closet.

(1938 – ) political commentator, author, columnist, politician & broadcaster

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.


At any particular time, there are more horse's asses in the world than horses.

Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

Some people have a chip on their shoulder; Billy has a whole lumberyard.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter

I have no sex appeal and it has screwed me up for life; my gynecologist examines me by telephone.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director

I went to counseling, spent $5,000 to have two women call me a loser.

(1957 – ) American comedian

No vice is so bad as advice.

(1868 – 1934) Canadian-American actress

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

(1894 – 1961) author, cartoonist & humorist

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

(1917 – 2010) American lawyer, novelist, historian & essayist

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?

(1909 – 1966) Polish poet, writer & aphorist

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.

(1883 – 1963) American writer & hostess

The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone he can blame it on.

The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.

(1824 – 1907) Irish mathematical physicist & engineer