sorry I have not gotten here yet .. I was gone most of yesterday & the same will be true today. There is always a lot of warmth, friendship, and fun here. Thank you all for your contributions..
For my next DollyHumor, from my friend Phil in Oregon... but sharing here:
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Insults, Quips and Quotes
“A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.”- Louis Nizer (1902 -1994)
“I feel so miserable without you, it’s almost like having you here.”- Stephen Bishop
“He is a self-made man and worships his creator.”- John Bright
“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’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.” - Irvin S. Cobb
“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
“He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.”- David Lloyd George
“Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I’ll waste no time reading it.”- Winston Churchill
“He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others.”- Samuel Johnson
“He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.”- Paul Keating
“He had delusions of adequacy.”- Walter Kerr
“There’s nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won’t cure.”- Jack E. Leonard
“He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.”- Abraham Lincoln
“He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.”-Robert Redford
“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.” -Talleyrand
“He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.”-Forrest Tucker
“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
“She is a peacock in everything but beauty.”- Oscar Wilde
“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
“He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts...for support, rather than illumination.” -Andrew Lang (1844-1912)