Subject: People (Page 66)

When our friends get into power, they aren’t our friends any more.

My parents are Catholic, which means that they love Jesus and liquor and I don't think there's anything more Mexican than that.

(1974 – ) American stand-up comedian

Sadist: A person who is kind to a masochist.

Your best friends are those who speak well of you behind your back.

(1920 – 2001) American writer & humorist

The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

You could move.

(1918 – ) American advice columnist

A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

I look at my friendship with her as like having a gall stone; you deal with it, there is pain, and then you pass it.

(1955 – ) American comedian, singer, actress & author

Flatterer: one who says things to your face that he wouldn’t say behind your back.

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

Cricket is a game which the British, not being a spiritual people, had to invent in order to have some concept of eternity.

British politician

If I were married to her, I’d be sure to have dinner ready when she got home.

(1920 – ) U.S. Secretary of State economist, statesman & businessman

If I could kick the person in the tail that causes me the most problems I could not sit down for a week.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the happy wish to be married, the married wish to be dead.

(1918 – 2002) advice columnist

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

(1892 – 1969) English publisher & bookseller

A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe.

(1920 – 2004) Canadian author, television personality & journalist

That's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

Why should I do anything for posterity? … what has posterity ever done for me?

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

When women kiss it always reminds me of prize fighters shaking hands.

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

When you talk to him, he looks at you and grins and grins and nods and nods and appears to be the world's best listener, until you realize he is not listening at all.

(1933 – ) television & radio host

During sex I fantasize that I'm someone else.

(1947 – ) comedian & actor