Subject: People (Page 121)

If she gets a hot flash and walks into a cold room, she can make it rain.

American actor & comedian

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

Y Chromosome: The cause of virility, war, baldness, hockey, sex crimes, clever inventions and a disinclination to ask for directions when lost.

[George Bush] has the look about him of someone who might sit up and yip for a Dog Yummie.

(1932 – 1997) newspaper columnist

The trouble with Ian [Fleming] is that he gets off with women because he can’t get on with them.

(1901 – 1990) British novelist

Always be nice to people on the way up; because you'll meet the same people on the way down.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

I can’t die until the government finds a safe place to bury my liver.

(1904 – 1995) American comedian, jazz musician & singer

Everyone seems normal until you get to know them.

Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive.

(1871 – 1951) American artist

All dogs look up to you; all cats look down to you… only the pig looks at you as an equal.

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

A consultant is a person who takes your money and annoys your employees while tirelessly searching for the best way to extend the consulting contract.

(1957 – ) cartoonist (Dilbert)

A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

A man in a queue is as much the image of a true Briton as a man in a bull-ring is the image of a Spaniard.

(1912 – 1987) Hungarian-born British author

Sadist: A person who is kind to a masochist.

In the forties, to get a girl you had to be a GI or a jock; in the fifties, to get a girl you had to be Jewish; in the sixties, to get a girl you had to be black; in the seventies, to get a girl you've got to be a girl.

(1927 – ) Canadian-born American comedian & actor

Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

You might be a redneck if… you have more belt-buckles than pants.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun!

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

You might be a redneck if… you need one more hole punched in your card to get a freebie at the House of Tattoos.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

A man who correctly guesses a woman’s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright.

(1911 – 1989) television actress

Even a sixty-year-old man with no arms thinks he could play in the Super Bowl if he had to.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer