Pithy Quotations

[Danya (imported)]

Having been inspired by Jesus' posts on Earinus the Eunuch, I was searching for a a Martial epigram I learned in my high school Latin class. I didn't find it but I ran across a collection of witty quotes. What I include here is a fraction of the list at Rand Lindsly's HUGE Quotations File (http://www.ashep.com/archive/loQtus/rand.html).

"Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants

should be subject to a term in prison."

-Will (I never met a man I didn't like) Rogers

When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.

Victor Borge

If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.

-Kingsley Amis

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

-Nicholas Murray Butler

All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure

I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.

Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)

The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run.

John Barrymore (1882-1942)

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

Albert Schweitzer

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

She got her good looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

Groucho Marx (1890-1977)

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

James Thurber (1894-1961)

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)

California is the only state in the union where you can

fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death.

William Claude Dunkenfield ("W. C. Fields")(1880-1946)

I once said cynically of a politician, "He'll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it"

Oscar Levant (1906-1972)

I'm not OK, you're not OK, and that's OK.

William Sloane Coffin

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)

Dinner theater is anti-culture.

John Simon

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Living in California adds ten years to a man's life. And

those extra ten years I'd like to spent in New York.

Harry Ruby

[markle (imported)]

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

Quentin Crisp