"I read a lot of medical books, but I'm no lawyer."

Here are some favorites -

Literate Put-Downs

"I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here."

- Stephen Bishop

"He is a self-made man & worships his creator." - John Bright

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."

- Winston Churchill

"A modest little person, with much to be modest about."

- Winston Churchill

"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."

- Irvin S. Cobb

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."

- Clarence Darrow

"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."

- William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)

"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?"

- Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it."

- Moses Hadas

"He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others."

- Samuel Johnson

"He had delusions of adequacy."

- Walter Kerr

"There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure."

- Jack E. Leonard

"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."

- Abraham Lincoln

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."

- Groucho Marx

"He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them."

- James Reston (about Richard Nixon)

"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily."

- Charles, Count Talleyrand

"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."

- Forrest Tucker

"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?"

- Mark Twain

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."

- Mark Twain

"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."

- Mae West

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

- Oscar Wilde

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."

- Oscar Wilde

"He has Van Gogh's ear for music."

- Billy Wilder

You made my days (yesterday and today). I sent these to my pastor and to my niece.

Glad you enjoyed these. Ill will might as well be had with style.