Some Favorite Quotes

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"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts...for support rather than illumination."
-Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

"I feel so miserable without you. It's almost like having you here."
-Stephen Bishop

"He is a self-made man, and he worships his creator."
-John Bright

"He has all the virtues I dislike, and none of the vices I admire."
-Winston Churchill

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
-Clarence Darrow

"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
-William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)

"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?"
-Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; "I'll waste no time reading it."
-Moses Hadas

"He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others."
-Samuel Johnson

"He had delusions of adequacy."
-Walter Kerr

"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."
-Abraham Lincoln

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."
-Groucho Marx

"He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them."
-James Reston (about Richard Nixon)

"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily."
-Charles, Count Talleyrand

"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?"
-Mark Twain

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
-Mark Twain

"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."
-Mae West

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
-Oscar Wilde

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
-Oscar Wilde

"He has Van Gogh's ear for music."
-Billy Wilder