The richer a relative is the less he bothers you.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
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Anonymous doctor to Christine Keeler the 'good time girl' in the British political Profumo scandal of 1963:
A few days on your feet and we'll soon have you back in bed.
A few days on your feet and we'll soon have you back in bed.
If voting changed anything they'd make it illegal.
Pierre Auguste Renoir:
I paint with my prick.
I paint with my prick.
Sir Len Hutton on women playing cricket:
It's a bit like watching men knitting.
It's a bit like watching men knitting.
What we want is a story that starts with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax....... Ascribed to film director Cecil B DeMille.
I had a great idea this morning but I didn't like it.
If you can't give me your word of honour, will you give me your promise?
A secretary informed film producer Sam Goldwyn that as the files were so overflowing, all correspondence over six years old should be destroyed:
By all means. But be sure to make copies.
By all means. But be sure to make copies.
I took it all with a dose of salts.
It rolls off my back like a duck.
Let's have some new cliches.
About one of his films, Goldwyn said to a critic:
I'm sorry you thought it was too bloody and too thirsty.
I'm sorry you thought it was too bloody and too thirsty.
Grey hair is a sign of age, not wisdom.
Howard Hughes on Clarke Gable:
That man's ears make him look like a taxi with both doors open.
That man's ears make him look like a taxi with both doors open.
Lewis Carroll to The Red Queen in Through the Looking Glass and what Alice found there. It might apply to the Swans!
Now you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that.
Now you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that.
To be good is noble, but to show others how to be good is nobler and less trouble.
There are three kinds of lie: a small lie, a big lie and politics.
People don't actually swim in Dublin Bay. They're merely going through the motions.
It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.