Subject: People (Page 119)

Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

Neurotic: Someone who worries about things that didn’t happen in the past instead of worrying about things that won’t happen in the future.

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved with the broth.

A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

Women want to be treated as equals, not sequels.

(1958 – ) Australian author

I have everything now I had twenty years ago – except now it’s lower.

(1911 – 1970) American burlesque entertainer, actress, author & playwright

You might be a redneck if… you ever named a child after a dog.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

You may be a redneck if… your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

When I got through with him, he was all covered wit' blood… my blood.

(1893 – 1980) American singer, pianist, comedian & actor

Bond smoked like Peter Lorre, drank like Humphrey Bogart, ate like Sydney Greenstreet, used up girls like Errol Flynn… then went to a steam bath and came out looking like Clark Gable.

(1926 – 1991) American television journalist

Flattery is telling people exactly what they think of themselves.

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

Sometimes a majority simply means that all the fools are on the same side.

(1925 – ) writer

Familiarity breeds contempt… and children.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Dates are basically where I go out and I act like someone I'm not until the person likes me enough to be who I actually am.

writer & comedian

Hermits have no peer pressure.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

They say men can never experience the pain of childbirth; but they can, if you hit them in the goolies with a cricket bat for 14 hours.

(1957 – ) British stand-up comedian

Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

You might be a redneck if… your toilet paper has page numbers on it.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning but to a man it is the beginning of the end.

(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist

I like a woman with a head on her shoulders… I hate necks.

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