Subject: People (Page 10)

At least Charles Manson has the decency to look crazy from the moment you meet him.

(1957 – 2007) American stand-up comedian & actor

Dad, the odds of me knowing the score to the Mariners game is about the same as you knowing the score to Pacific Overtures.

(1955 – ) American actor, comedian, producer, director & singer

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape Nuts on principle.

(1874 – 1936) English author & mystery novelist

Yeah, I'm kind of lazy… I'm dating a pregnant woman.


My father was a simple man; my mother was a simple woman; you see the result standing in front of you, a simpleton.

(1919 – 1985) Scottish comedian & actor

White folks love everything about black culture, except the blacks.

American stand-up comedian

I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something's wrong with me.

(1952 – ) comedian

Every time I go near the stove, the dog howls.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

Some of my best friends are thieves; why, just last week we had the president of the bank over for dinner.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

My girlfriend makes me want to be a better person – so I can get a better girlfriend.

(1978 – ) American writer & stand-up comedian

I’m trying to drop an asshole a day from my life and doing the math I’ll be done in the year 3011.

(1947 – ) comedian & actor

Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.

American free-lance writer

The Irish… don’t care for clean government; they want Irish government.

(1869 – 1944) Canadian economist & humorist

My parents never understood me; they were Japanese.

(1919 – 1985) Scottish comedian & actor

You know you're working class when your TV is bigger than your bookcase.

English standup comedian

There were three things that Chico was always on – a phone, a horse, or a broad.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

There are two types of people: those who divide people into two types, and those who don't.

Mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

Friends are like fiddle-strings and they must not be screwed too tightly.

Women’s styles may change, but their designs remain the same.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

They finally found one.

British ski jumper