Subject: People (Page 124)

You might be a redneck if… your house still has the "WIDE LOAD" sign on the back.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

I had a friend who was a clown and when he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Hell is easy to define; it would be spending eternity with Evangelicals.

American judge & lawyer

Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

(1898 – 1981) actor, singer, songwriter & movie producer

It is only rarely that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

(1824 – 1895) French writer

Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die.

(1890 – 1973) English writer & critic

I’m English, but I want to let you know that even though I’m English, I’m not here to solve a murder mystery.

comedian

He'd fall in a sewer and come up with a gold watch.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.

(1927 – ) magician & comedy writer

The problem with some people is that when they aren’t drunk, they’re sober.

(1865 – 1939) Irish poet & politician

They laughed when I said I was going to be a comedian; well, they’re not laughing now.

(1928 – 2003) English entertainer

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

(1931 – ) television newscaster

Women don't want to hear what you think; women want to hear what they think – in a deeper voice.

(1937 – ) comedian & television actor

Behind every successful man, you’ll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

(1908 – 1997) American actor

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares.

(1856 – 1915) writer, publisher, artist & philosopher

I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

(1913 – 1973) American animator & cartoonist (Pogo)

Indians are born with an instinct for riding, rowing, hunting, fishing, and swimming; Americans are born with an instinct for fooling around with machines.

(1908 – 1981) American dramatist & author

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