Henry Ford:
Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it. If you are sick, you shouldn't take it.
Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it. If you are sick, you shouldn't take it.
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On a two-line poem:
Very nice, though there are dull stretches.
Very nice, though there are dull stretches.
It is a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it. (Swans Board, pay attention)
I would not want Jimmy Carter and his men put in charge of snake control in Ireland.
It is a town that looks as if it has been out on the tiles all night.
The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
For my part I keep the commandments. I love my neighbour as myself and, to avoid coveting my neighbour's wife, I desire to be coveted by her, which you know is quite another thing.
I just got back from a pleasure trip. I took my mother-in-law to the airport.
Old age is the outpatients department of Purgatory.
Looked as though he had been weaned on a pickle.
What a pity in life that we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us!
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
Dorothy Parker when told Calvin Coolidge had died:
How can they tell?
How can they tell?
Noel Coward on an actress unable to elicit comedy from his lines:
She couldn't get a laugh if she pulled a kipper out of her c**t!
She couldn't get a laugh if she pulled a kipper out of her c**t!
John Barrymore, American actor (1882-!942):
One of my chief regrets during my years in the theatre is that I couldn't sit in the audience and watch me.
One of my chief regrets during my years in the theatre is that I couldn't sit in the audience and watch me.
Genius may have its limitations but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
On swimming film star Esther Williams:
Wet, she was a star - dry she ain't.
Wet, she was a star - dry she ain't.
If you want to be thought a liar always tell the truth.
Honesty is the best policy, but it is not the cheapest.