Subject: Insults (Page 7)

America is one long expectoration.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

[boxing promoter] Bob Arum is one of the worst people in the western hemisphere. I don't know the eastern hemisphere very well, but I suspect he'd be one of the worst people there too, if he went.

boxing manager & trainer

If there’s one thing for which I admire you, it’s your original discovery of the Ten Commandments.

(1839 – 1902) Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives

His writing is rumble and bumble, flap and doodle, balder and dash.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

Remember men, you are fighting for the ladies honor, which is probably more than she ever did.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

I can always tell when the mother-in-law’s coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps.

(1931 – 1993) English comedian

Devotees of awful filmmaking can't go wrong with this one.

movie critic

President Clinton apparently gets so much action that every couple of weeks they have to spray WD-40 on his zipper.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

Time wounds all heels.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Reminds me of nothing so much as a dead fish before it has had time to stiffen.

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

He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

The English think soap is civilization.

(1834 – 1896) German historian & political writer

I love that black dress; that neckline is plunging faster than Aretha Franklin’s head into a bucket of fried chicken.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director

He is your typical smiling, brilliant, back-stabbing, bullshitting southern nut-cutter.

(1922 – 1999) labor union leader, president of the AFL-CIO

In feathered hats that were once the rage, she resembles a petrified parakeet from the Jurassic age; a royal wreck.

Richard Blackwell (1922 – 2008) fashion critic, journalist, & designer

Television opened up a whole new field of unemployment for him.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter

They’re talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that’s used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can’t even smoke in bed.

(1956 – ) comedian, television host, social critic & political commentator

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

(1857 – 1938) American lawyer

McEnroe was as charming as always, which means that he was as charming as a dead mouse in a loaf of bread.

(1939 – ) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet & memoirist

He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.

(1897 – 1960) Welsh labor leader & politician

[Adlai] Stevenson was a man who could never make up his mind… whether he had to go to the bathroom or not.

(1884 – 1972) 33rd U.S. president