Subject: People (Page 103)

If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you; if he's not, why embarrass him by asking?

(1901 – 1970) American journalist & author

Indians are born with an instinct for riding, rowing, hunting, fishing, and swimming; Americans are born with an instinct for fooling around with machines.

(1908 – 1981) American dramatist & author

The other day a woman described me as a bit of a looker… well voyeur was the actual word she used, but there’s no need to split hairs is there?

(1973 – ) English writer & stand-up comedian

When a man goes on a date, he wonders if he is going to get lucky… a woman already knows.

If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

Even paranoids have enemies.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

(1894 – 1961) author, cartoonist & humorist

A friend in need is a pest.

(1925 – ) English actor

I couldn’t tell if the streaker was a man or a woman because it had a bag on its head.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Most minds are like concrete… all mixed up and permanently set!

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

Imagine if the headless horseman had a headless horse… that would be chaos.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

Those with the best advice offer no advice.

There are girls who manage to sell themselves, whom no one would take as gifts.

(1741 – 1794) French writer

They say if the Swiss had designed these mountains… they’d be flatter.

(1941 – ) novelist

Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

(1901 – 2000) English author

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.

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

I don’t like meals for one; it’s not that they make me feel lonely… it’s that they’re not big enough.

(1975 – ) English comedian

You know, you can’t please all the people all the time… and last night, all those people were at my show.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself… and you are the easiest person to fool.

(1918 – 1988) American physicist

He may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch.

(1882 – 1945) 32nd U.S. president

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

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