All you need to be a success in showbusiness is about seventeen good breaks. - Walter Matthau
QUOTE OF THE DAY
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Between two evils, I always pick the one I haven't tried before.
Welsh actor and playwright Emlyn Williams to fellow Welsh actor Victor Spinnetti:
Ah, Victor, still struggling to keep your head below water.
Ah, Victor, still struggling to keep your head below water.
Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity.
Yankee_Jack
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I'm all for it
Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put in.
A lady of a 'certain age', which means certainly aged.
Yankee_Jack
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Which reminds me of another often used phrase by women that actually admit to carrying a "few" pounds. Never has greater license been exercised than in the use of the word "few".
Dean Martin on why he didn't visit the UK more often:
I couldn't afford the duty on my liver.
I couldn't afford the duty on my liver.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment of the corrupt few.
Spike Milligan:
When I look back, the fondest memory I have is not really of the Goons. It is of a girl called Julia with enormous breasts.
When I look back, the fondest memory I have is not really of the Goons. It is of a girl called Julia with enormous breasts.
Life's a binge and then you diet.
Mae West:
So many men, so little time!
So many men, so little time!
Tact consists of knowing how far we may go too far.
Dr Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer (1709-84); A Dictionary of the English Language:
OATS: A grain, which in England is generally fed to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
OATS: A grain, which in England is generally fed to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
P. G. Wodehouse - on the dedication of his book, The Heart of a Goof (1926)
To my daugher Leonora, without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time.
To my daugher Leonora, without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time.
The Romans would never have had time to conquer the world if they had been obliged to learn Latin first.
Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.
We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.