Subject: People (Page 107)

Abstainer: The kind of man you wouldn’t want to drink with even if he did.

(1882 – 1958) drama critic, editor

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

(1904 – 1999) author, editor, radio host

China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.

(1890 – 1970) French president, general & statesman

A wedding invitation is sent by people who have been saying, “Do we have to ask them?” to people whose first response is, “How much do you think we have to spend on them?”

(1938 – ) journalist, columnist (Miss Manners)

A woman is a highly developed, deeply intelligent, infinitely complicated being… and it needs to be carefully tricked into doing things.

(1974 – ) American stand-up comedian & actor

Don’t knock coronaries… they’re all we women have got to guarantee us a prosperous and exciting middle age.

(1932 – 2000) English author & academic

Eventually soul mates meet, for they have the same hiding place.

American writer

You might be a redneck if… you think the French Riviera is a foreign car.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

And you know a man is a redneck if there's two boys in the same family named Jr.

(1926 – 1998) American country comedian

I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.

(1809 – 1865) 16th U.S. president

A Canadian is merely an unarmed American with health care. 

Canadian comedian & author

You might be a redneck if… your house doesn't have curtains, but your truck does.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

(1913 – 1983) journalist & author

The first time you buy a house you think how pretty it is and sign the check… the second time you look to see if the basement has termites; it's the same with men.

(1908 – 1944) Mexican actress

An Iranian moderate is one that has run out of ammunition.

(1923 – ) German-born diplomat & scholar

It’s not the men in your life that matters, it’s the life in your men.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

If you help a friend in need, he is sure to remember you… the next time he’s in need.

In high school, I was the class comedian as opposed to the class clown; the difference is the class clown is the guy who drops his pants at the football game, the class comedian is the guy who talked him into it.

(1948 – ) comedian, actor, writer, producer & film director

Believe me when I say that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business… my business.

(1932 – ) American political satirist & comedian

It’s great that we’ve got a compassionate conservative, but to me, that sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack.

(1951 – 2014) comedian & actor

A woman scorned is a woman who quickly learns her way around a courtroom.

(1950 – ) Australian actress