Subject: Insults (Page 41)

Sometimes Howard makes me wish I was a dog and he was a fireplug.

(1942 – ) American boxing champion

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized to how many people he is not a sex symbol but a mother image.

(1947 – ) English musician, actor, record producer & arranger

Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

He is so stupid you can't trust him with an idea.

(1902 – 1968) novelist

I will always love the false image I had of you.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

He stood on the flat road to heaven and buttered slides to hell for all the rest.

(1841 – 1935) American jurist & Supreme Court justice

He was trying to save both his faces.

(1901 – 1970) American journalist & author

Art is long and life is short; here is evidently the explanation of a Brahms symphony.

Judge: You are extremely offensive, young man!

Smith: As a matter of fact we both are; but I am trying to be, and you can’t help it.

(1872 – 1930) British statesman, politician & lawyer

I treasure every moment that I do not see her.

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

I doubt that art needed [John] Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.

(1937 – ) British playwright & screenwriter

Michael Jackson’s album was only called “Bad” because there wasn’t enough room on the sleeve for “Pathetic.”

Rogers Nelson (1958 – ) singer, songwriter, musician & actor

He's had so many face-lifts, his face has moved to the top of his head, you have to get on a step-ladder to watch him lie!

(1971 – ) Irish comedian, actor & writer

You look like the kind of woman who dates guys in prison.

(1983 – ) American comedian

She looks like something that would eat its young.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

That kid's about as sharp as a pound of wet liver.

cartoon character (Mel Blanc)

You know I could rent you out as a decoy for duck hunters?

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

No wonder Bob Geldof is such an expert on famine… he’s been dining off I Don’t Like Mondays for 30 years.

(1975 – ) English comedian, actor & writer

Mariah the fashion pariah… the queen of catastrophic kitsch.

Richard Blackwell (1922 – 2008) fashion critic, journalist, & designer

I look at my friendship with her as like having a gall stone; you deal with it, there is pain, and then you pass it.

(1955 – ) American comedian, singer, actress & author

Don King is one of the great humanitarians of our time. He has risen above that great term, prejudice. He has screwed everybody he has ever been around. Hog, dog, or frog, it don't matter to Don. If you got a quarter, he wants the first 26 cents.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor