Subject: Insults (Page 21)

An idiot child screaming in a hospital.

(1866 – 1946) English author

As you know President Bush is on a tour of Europe; he says he's hoping to see the whole country.

(1950 – ) comedian & television host

That's not writing, that's typing.

(1924 – 1984) American author

George Bush should be the man the Americans send to Mars.

(1968 – ) English comedian & television personality

I liked your opera… I think I will set it to music.

(1770 – 1827) German composer & pianist

His favorite exercise is climbing tall people.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

I wouldn’t speak to her if I met her in hell and she was carrying ice.

If ever a single person was living proof that intelligence is a meaningless quality without modest common sense, it was Susan Sontag.

(1947 – ) English-born Irish journalist & writer

A hyena in syrup.

(1933 – ) Russian poet, novelist, screenwriter, actor, editor & film director

Our loss is their loss.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor

His mind was like a soup dish, wide and shallow; it could hold a small amount of nearly anything, but the slightest jarring spilled the soup into somebody's lap.

(1903 – 1989) American writer

He sang like a hinge.

(1908 – 1984) American actress & singer

He hasn’t an enemy in the world – but all his friends hate him.

(1892 – 1964) singer, dancer, comedian, actor & songwriter

I'll bet your father spent the first year of your life throwing rocks at storks.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

I thought he was a young man of promise; but it appears he was a young man of promises.

(1848 – 1930) British Conservative politician & statesman

A great zircon in the diadem of American literature.

(1925 – 2012) author, playwright, essayist & screenwriter

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I; never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.

Peggy Noonan (1950 – ) American author & columnist

He is suffering from halitosis of the intellect; that's presuming he has intellect.

(1874 – 1952) administrator & politician

He looks and talks like he just fell off Edgar Bergen's lap.

(1942 – ) Canadian comedian, actor, writer, director & author

That woman’s as cold as a nudist on an iceberg.

cartoon character (Mel Blanc)

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

(1721 – 1771) Scottish poet & author