Subject: People (Page 45)

I watched Ken Burns' Civil War series on PBS… my favorite segment is when Bob Hope entertains the troops at Gettysburg.

(1927 – ) Canadian-born American comedian & actor

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

(1920 – 1996) American psychologist & writer & advocate of psychedelic drugs

A hypocrite is a person who – but who isn't?

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

It is hard for the ape to believe that he has descended from man.

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

Woman: A person who needs a shoe larger on the inside than outside.

Personally, I think that if a woman hasn’t met the right man by the time she’s twenty-four, she may be lucky.

(1921 – 2007) Scottish-born actress

You mean there aren't enough people mad at me already?

(1911 – 2004) 40th U.S. president & actor

My movies were the kind they show in prisons and on airplanes, because no one can leave.

(1936 – 2018) American actor

Every organization has an allotted number of positions to be filled by misfits.

Corollary: Once a misfit leaves, another will be recruited.

Y Chromosome: A line of genes designed for men only.

Teenagers are people who express a burning desire to be different by dressing exactly alike.

Transvestite: A guy who likes to eat, drink and be Mary!

Bore: A person who deprives you with solitude without providing company.


I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.

(1913 – 1983) journalist & author

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

(1936 – ) television talk show host

I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

When I don't look like the tragic muse, I look like the smoky relic of the great Boston Fire.

(1832 – 1888) novelist

When I meet a beautiful girl, the first thing I say is 'will you marry me? … the second thing I say is, 'how do you do?”

(1894 – 1967) English heir, New York socialite (married 13 times)

You might be a redneck if…… you think that Dom Perignon is a mafia leader.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

Man is the only animal that plays poker.

(1889 – 1966) American humorist, writer, illustrator & cartoonist

A man with two perfectly good legs who has never learned to walk.

(1882 – 1945) 32nd U.S. president