I wish I'd said that...

[John Collins]

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

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

"A modest little person, with much to be modest about." - 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

"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human
knowledge" - Thomas Brackett Reed

"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

"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

"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play, bring a
friend... if you have one." - George Bernard Shaw to Winston
Churchill

"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is
one." - Winston Churchill, in reply

"A sheep in sheep's clothing." - Winston Churchill, on Clement Atlee

"There but for the grace of God, goes God." - Winston Churchill, on
Stafford Cripps

"He occasionally stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up
and hurried on as if nothing had happened." - Winston Churchill, on
Stanley Baldwin

JC

[james kelly]

Now this is something that I really like. jim kelly

[rlortie]

John and James,

Now this could turn into an "off topic" thread with great relief to the usual.

I love this one: "He occasionally stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened."
- Winston Churchill, on Stanley Baldwin

It reminds me of a lot of remarks made here on the forum.

One of my favorites came from a "T" shirt that states;

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
Author unkown.

Ralph

[ken_behrendt]

I like this thread of "memorable" quotes. I heard one that involved the philosopher Voltaire. He had fallen into disfavor with the French court and had to flee to nearby Switzerland to keep from being arrested. From there he continued to issue pamphlets espousing his political theories and attacking the French monarchy.

His many critics eventually found his mailing address and began to bombard him with the then equivalent of hate mail. One of his responses to a particular vitriolic letter went something like this:

"Sir, I am now reading your letter in the smallest room in my house. Shortly, it will be behind me".


ken

P.S. In case anybody did not get it...the "smallest room" was his toilet or, as they say in Europe, the "water closet".

[Sevich]

Hi guy's! .....nice thead JC

here's one:


A man gave his bus seat to a woman; she fainted.
After she recovered, she thanked him; then he fainted


AUTHOR UNKNOWN