Subject: People (Page 36)

If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?

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

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

(1942 – ) American author and teacher

A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn’t.

On our first date, I asked her if I could give her a goodnight kiss on the cheek… she bent over!

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

(1864 – 1910) French author

Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

You might be a redneck if… your on your first date you had to ask your dad to borrow the keys to the tractor.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

It's hard to feel fit as a fiddle when you're shaped like a cello.

American basketball coach & executive

I got nothin’ against mankind; it’s people I can’t stand.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

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

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Ronnie's hero is Calvin Coolidge and Nancy's is Calvin Klein.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

If this is airing in the future and no one knows who Karl Rove is, he's the reason you all live underground.

(1974 – ) Russian-born American comedian, writer & filmmaker

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady… it sounds like a saddle horse.

(1929 – 1994) U.S. first lady, wife of John Fitzgerald Kennedy & book editor

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

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

Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.

(1966 – ) American magazine editor

Diamonds – that’ll shut her up… for a minute!

(1956 – ) American stand-up comedian

Men and nations will act rationally towards each other only after all other possibilities have been exhausted.

Friend: A person who listens attentively while you say nothing.

If Spiderman was real, and I was a criminal, and he shot me with his web, I would say, “Dude, thanks for the hammock.”

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian