Category: Joke Board
GREAT LITERARY TAUNTS
"I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here." Stephen Bishop
"A modest little person, with much to be modest about." Winston Churchill (about Clement Atlee)
"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)
"He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others." Samuel Johnson
"He had delusions of adequacy." Walter Kerr
"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 loves nature in spite of what it did to him." --- Forrest Tucker
"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
And my personal favorite in the famous last words category, reportedly spoken by Oscar Wilde as his friends and family gathered round his hospice death
bed: "Either this wallpaper goes, or I go!!"
"I'm not young enough to know everything." Oscar Wilde
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and let it be said of blbobby, He is not only interesting himself, he is the cause of interest here on The Zone.
Actually my favorite one wasn't on there. It is attributed to Oscar Wilde, who, when asked what he thought of someone he detested, said, "well, I can take him or leave him, but not necessarily in that order."
"I never forget a face. But in your case, I'll make an exception." Groucho Marx. Hehe, these are great! And I love that Oscar has so many more than anyone else. That's as it should be.
That car is a piece of junk! John Surtees the renowned champion on 2 and four wheels, to Enzo Ferrari, the fearsome autocratic boss of Ferrari.
like it!
I never forget a face and I can remember both of yours.
Sir you are drunk! Winston Churchill Yes I am madame and you are ugly, but in the morning I shall be sober.
In the book Hertzog, Saul Bello has his main character see some grifitti that says:
"If they strike thee on the cheek, turn the other face."
LOl! Michael MacMahon said when the MSP's were debating the question of prayers in the Scottish Parliament. "Iv'e found that the only difference by the sacreligious and the sanctimonious, is that the sanctimonious have a sense of humour".
I've got to print and frame these!!