Subject: Characteristics (Page 38)

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor
Characteristics Hollywood Places Time

When we played softball, I’d steal second base, feel guilty and go back.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian
Characteristics Sports

It's [a movie script] about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.

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

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

Characteristics

The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.

(1824 – 1907) Irish mathematical physicist & engineer
Characteristics People

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

(1894 – 1961) author, cartoonist & humorist
Characteristics Entertainment Opinion

Be a fountain, not a drain.

(1960 – ) professional baseball player
Characteristics

I can resist everything except temptation.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Characteristics

I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?

comedian
Books Characteristics Communication Reading/Writing

We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

(1913 – 1983) journalist & author
Characteristics

Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.

(1971 – ) Canadian blogger, journalist & science fiction author
Characteristics

Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got.

(1934 – ) Italian actress
Characteristics Sex

An easily understood, workable falsehood is more useful than a complex, incomprehensible truth.

Characteristics Honesty Intelligence Lies Murphy’s Laws Truth

I'm not anti-social – I'm just not social.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian
Characteristics People Self

You may already be a loser!

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor
Characteristics

If men have a smell it's usually an accident.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality
Accidents Characteristics Men People

Diplomacy: Lying in state.

(1863 – 1935) British-born American writer, artist & illustrator
Characteristics Government

An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

(1826 – 1877) English economist & journalist
Characteristics Situations

Men are pigs; too bad we own everything.

(1953 – ) comedian & actor
Characteristics Men People

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

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

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

(1874 – 1936) English author & mystery novelist
Characteristics