Sunday, April 19, 2009

Famous Quotations by famous People.....9

"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech." - Martin Fraquhar Tupper
"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it." - Moses Hadas (1900-1966)
"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it." - Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"When ideas fail, words come in very handy." - Goethe (1749-1832)
"In the end, everything is a gag." - Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)
"The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people." - Lucille S. Harper
"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there." - Yogi Berra
"I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known." - Walt Disney (1901-1966)
"He who hesitates is a damned fool." - Mae West (1892-1980)
"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater." - Gail Godwin
"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small." - Henry Kissinger (1923-)
"The graveyards are full of indispensable men." - Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)
"You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty." - Sacha Guitry (1885-1957)
"Behind every great fortune there is a crime." - Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)
"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning." - Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)
"I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his." - General George Patton (1885-1945)
"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
"There is no sincerer love than the love of food." - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking." - Katherine Cebrian
"I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it." - Steven Wright
"Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour." - Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)
"Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure." - Oliver Herford (1863-1935)
"I have read your book and much like it." - Moses Hadas (1900-1966)
"The covers of this book are too far apart." - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

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