I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.

The real fact of the matter is that nobody reads ads. People read what interests them, and sometimes it's an ad.

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.

I would rather stay positive and get 50 percent good results, than stay negative and get 100 percent bad results!

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party

Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you're heading for a crash. What I'm against is blind flying.

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.

For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

Responsible, who wants to be responsible? Whenever something bad happens, it's always, who's responsible for this?

Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.

Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest

A deranged person is supposed to have the strength of ten men. I have the strength of one small boy... with polio.

The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back

What I don't like is snark for snark's sake. If you are going to make fun of me, at least be witty while doing it.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.

People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it.

The first thing men notice about a woman is her eyes. Then, when her eyes aren't looking, they notice her breasts.

If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

I should go to Paris and jump off of the Eiffel Tower. If I took the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier.

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.

Before the Internet, if someone disappeared, it meant you should go looking for them. Now it means they got a life.

(My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word FARTING.)

Well Mandira, I hope not. You see, I started both their careers. And as far as i can remember, I started yours too.

If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.

It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.

People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.

In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

[On Italian:] One may almost call it a language that talks of itself, and always seems more witty than its speakers.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?

Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

Quoting E. B. White is the easiest way I know of to fool people into thinking that I am perceptive, witty, and wise.

When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, "Has the bus come yet?". If the bus came would I be standing here?

A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.

My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty one.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

My music is basically all about witty punchlines and lyric progression that is aimed to make you laugh or say "Woah."

I need to not be typecast as big, black, and dumb but be seen as an intelligent, witty, bold, and charismatic person.

With the possible exception of clothes, beauty salons and Frank Sinatra, there are few subjects all women agree upon.

Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.

Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with.

The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.

Until the day arrives when all women decide that our rights are not negotiable, our future choices will not be secure.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

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