Subject: Characteristics (Page 15)

I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

There are some people that if they don’t know, you can’t tell ‘em.

(1901 – 1971) American jazz trumpeter and singer

My problem is that I appeal to everyone that can do me absolutely no good.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.

(1939 – ) American television host, producer & author

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Don’t say yes until I finish talking.

(1902 – 1979) American film studio executive & producer

Humor is reason gone mad.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

Eric Arthur Blair (1903 – 50) English author & journalist

He is racist, he's homophobic, he's xenophobic and he's a sexist; he's the perfect Republican candidate.

(1940 – ) talk radio host, political commentator and author

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.

(1930 – ) actor, writer, film & television director

If peeing in your pants is cool, consider me Miles Davis.


He’s crooked as a barrel full of fish hooks.

I love men, even though they're lying, cheating scumbags.

(1972 – ) American actress

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?

(1909 – 1966) Polish poet, writer & aphorist

Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

(1835 – 1902) English composer, author & satirist

Trust everybody, but cut the cards.

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.

(1609 – 1683) British religious leader

Hermits have no peer pressure.