Subject: People (Page 4)

Fish and visitors smell in three days.

(1706 – 1790) American statesman, author, scientist & inventor

It’s like kissing Hitler.

(1925 – 2010) American film actor

We have become, Nina, the sort of people our parents warned us against.

(1785 – 1859) Boston boot maker & probation reformer

Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.

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

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

(1882 – 1941) English novelist, essayist, publisher & feminist

Errol Flynn died on a 70-foot boat with a 17-year-old girl; Walter has always wanted to go that way, but he's going to settle for a 17-footer with a 70-year-old.

(1916– 2005) American wife of Walter Cronkite

A lot of smart young people have come out of Indiana; the smarter they are, the faster they come out.

(1866 – 1944) American writer, newspaper columnist, playwright & humorist

Wedding: A ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

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

American actor & comedian

My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.


(1907 – 1973) poet & critic

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 it has genitals on the outside it’s hiding something on the inside.

(1958 – ) American actress & singer

Give a civil servant a good cause and he’ll wreck it with cliches, bad punctuation, double negatives and convoluted apology.

(1928 – 1999) British politician & diarist

A gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. 

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

My trademarks are a hoarse, grating voice and the face of a retired pugilist: small narrowed eyes set in puffy features which look as though they might, years ago, have lost on points.

(1911 – 1986) American actor

Bachelor: A man who can get out of bed from either side.

You might be a redneck if… you think loading the dishwasher means getting your wife drunk.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

Most people my age are dead at the present time.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable – as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

Friend: Someone who thinks you’re a good egg even though you’re slightly cracked.

There are no eccentrics in the suburbs.

(1950 – ) American author, satirist, webmaster & copywriter