Subject: Communication » Language (Page 16)

Where would I be without my sense of direction.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

Interpreter: A ventriloquist using two dummies.

Man invented language to satisfy his inner need to complain.

(1935 – ) screenwriter, author, director & producer

Epigram: A wisecrack that played Carnegie Hall.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor

Easy way to make someone sound less powerful, just put DJ in front of their name… DJ Abraham Lincoln.

(1973 – ) American comedian

Boy, those French… they have a different word for everything!

(1945 – ) comedian, actor, writer, playwright & musician

Dyselxics Have More Nuf.

When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy.

(1867 – 1936) author & humorist

Why is abbreviation such a long word?

George Moore wrote excellent English until he discovered grammar.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Coward: One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Why don't they have waiters in waiting rooms?

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

English As She is Spoke

‘Finger Puppet’ sounds OK as a noun.

(1973 – ) American comedian

Censor: A man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

(1919 – 1990) educator & writer

Longevity: Uncommon extension of the fear of death.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Calling Durante's nose large is like calling Jack Benny "thrifty."

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

Brain: An apparatus with which we think we think.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Architect: One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

(1904 – 1989) Spanish surrealist painter

Ever wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?

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