A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
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For Hector:
Let us endeavour so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Let us endeavour so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
A man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damned fool if he doesn't.
I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake - which I also keep handy. WC Fields.
I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. It's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.
Of marriage:
I'm not going to make the same mistake once.
I'm not going to make the same mistake once.
An Iranian moderate is one who has run out of ammunition.
When you marry your mistress, you create a job vacancy.
The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
You know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. One day my wife came home early and found us in bed together.
Of a dinner party:
It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as who's on the chairs.
It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as who's on the chairs.
I have nothing against gardening. I just prefer to not be there when it happens.
Alfonso X, The Wise, King of Castile (1221-84)
Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.
Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.
Of disc jockeys:
The wriggling ponces of the spoken word.
The wriggling ponces of the spoken word.
I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life but you - you're twenty minutes!
When I was a boy I was told that anyone could become President. I'm beginning to believe it.
Next to the pleasure of taking a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.
Willie Sutton, American criminal, on being asked why he persisted in robbing banks:
Because that's where the money is.
Because that's where the money is.