Subject: People (Page 97)

Britons put up with, Americans fix, while Canadians cope.

(1901 – 1978) anthropologist

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature; and another woman to help him forget them.

(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist

What’s a cult…it just means not enough people to make a minority.

(1925 – 2006) American film director, screenwriter & producer

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you.

The bravest thing that men do is love women.

(1927 – ) Canadian-born American comedian & actor

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

1867 – 1931) English novelist

Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.

(1953 – ) comedian & actor

It's hard to be nice to some paranoid schizophrenics just because she lives in your body.

(1956 – ) American entertainer & comedian

Probably the toughest time in anyone’s life is when you have to murder a loved one because they’re the devil.

(1956 – ) American comedian

There's only two white men that black people love: Bill Clinton and Bob Barker.

(1963 – ) American comedian

A woman’s always younger than a man at equal years.

(1806 – 1861) English poet

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

(1922 – 2007) American novelist

Utter cowards who force their own children to drink wine, they gibber like baboons even when you try to speak to them in their own wimpy language.

(1947 – ) author, humorist & satirist

Only the paranoid survive.

(1936 – ) Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer & author

We have a strange and wonderful relationship – he's strange and I'm wonderful.

(1939 – ) American football player & coach

A committee is twelve men doing the work of one.

(1932 – 2009) U.S. senator (Massachusetts)

Intuition: The strange instinct that tells a woman she is right whether she is or not.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Spinster: An unlusted number.

… the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.

(1888 – 1957) English writer

Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun!

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host