Subject: People (Page 52)

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

(1892 – 1969) English publisher & bookseller

It was tough growing up in Florida because all my friends were retired.

(1959 – ) American comedian, comedy writer, actor & author

In heaven all the interesting people are missing.

(1844 – 1900) German philosopher

Sometimes a majority simply means that all the fools are on the same side.

(1925 – ) writer

A woman can smell mink through six inches of lead.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.


It wasn't that no one asked me to the prom, it was that no one would tell me where it was.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.

(1972 – ) American actress & former model

The French are masters of ‘the dog ate my homework’ school of diplomatic relations.

(1947 – ) author, humorist & satirist

The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.

(1935 – ) columnist, journalist & novelist

Information travels more surely to those with a lesser need to know.

No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.

(1928 – ) American psychologist & advice columnist

Egotism: Usually a case of mistaken nonentity.

(1907 – 1990) American actress

My girlfriend looks a little like Charlize Theron… and a lot like Dog the Bounty Hunter.

(1969 – ) comedian & actor

A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if he were rich.

(1763 – 1848) German-American, first multi-millionaire in the U.S.

Don’t knock coronaries… they’re all we women have got to guarantee us a prosperous and exciting middle age.

(1932 – 2000) English author & academic

Death to all fanatics!

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Modesty: Being comfortable that others will soon discover your greatness.

A man who goes into a supermarket for a few items would rather walk around balancing them than put them in one of those little baskets.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

Militant feminists, I take my hat off to them, they don’t like that.

(1964 – ) English comedian