Wisdom_Philosophy_and_Other_Musings_Quotations

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last." - Winston Churchill (Reader's Digest Dec 54)

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." - Winston Churchill (News summaries 5 Jul 54)

"Adolescence is just one big walking pimple." - Carol Burnett (Phil Donahue Show NBC TV 16 Oct 68)

"Thank God, I am still an atheist." LUIS BUÑUEL (Time 29 Nov 69)

"People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope friend, a wife beater and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there's something wrong with him." - Art Buchwald (Have I Ever Lied to You? Putnam, 68)

"A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it." - Art Buchwald (NY Herald Tribune 16 Jan 58)

"Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture." - Maria Buatta (Quoted by John Taylor "Fringe Lunatic" Manhattan Inc Jul 86)

"Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving." - Erma Bombeck (Quoted by John Skow Time 2 Jul 84)

"A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours." - Milton Berle (News summaries 1 Jul 54)

"Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." - Jack Benny (NY Times 15 Feb 74)

"Life is a sexually transmitted disease." - Guy Bellamy (The Sinner's Congregation Secker & Warburg 84)

"To our wives and sweethearts ... and may they never meet." (Favorite toast of the Royal Navy, quoted by Hugo Vickers Cecil Beaton Little, Brown 85)

"If you drink, don't dial." - Anonymous (Reply to caller who dialed his social security number instead of the number he wished to reach, quoted in NY Herald Tribune 30 Apr 58)

"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." - ib

"The hair is real - it's the head that's a fake." - Steve Allen (When asked if he wore a toupee, NBC TV) 15 Dec 57

"Evil is the stone on which the good sharpens itself." - Dorothy Auchterlonie (Dorothy Green) St. Mark's Review Jun 76