Subject: People (Page 20)

You might be a redneck if… your state's got a new law that says when a couple get divorced, they are still legally brother and sister.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

There is no ‘I’ in self-esteem.

(1982 – ) American comedian & actress

Of course they have, otherwise I wouldn't be sitting here talking to someone like you.

(1901 – 2000) English author

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

(1913 – 1983) journalist & author

Don’t marry a man to reform him; that’s what reform schools are for.

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

People who never get carried away should be.

(1919 – 1990) publisher & author

I have the woman-flu, which is like the manflu but worse because I also regularly have periods and I get paid less.

Danish comedian

A fool and his money is a friend indeed.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

… there are three sexes – men, women, and clergymen.

(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman

Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.

Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something.

(1956 – ) American comedian

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

(1948 – ) English novelist

Authority tends to assign jobs to those least able to do them.

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you Can't Fool Mom.

Men love to be thought of as funny… except when they’re in bed.

(1968 – ) American actress & singer

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.

(1914 – 1953) Welsh-born poet & writer

Timid? … as timid as a buzz saw.