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Posted on August 19, 2021 by Roger Harmston Posted in Humour

You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.C.S. Lewis


Mean people don’t bother me a bit. Mean people who disguise themselves as nice people bother me a lot.UnknownSilence is the best answer to someone who doesn’t value your words. Unknown

“I wonder if God created man because he was disappointed in the monkey?”
Mark Twain


Are you carrying? Code for Do you have a mask with you?


A member of Parliament to Disraeli: “Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.””That depends, Sir,” said Disraeli, “whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.”

“He had delusions of adequacy.”  Walter Kerr


“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”  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)

“Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I’ll waste no time reading it.”  Moses Hadas 

 “I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”  -Mark Twain 

“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 response. 

 “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 

 “I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.” Irvin S. Cobb 

“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 

“In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.” Charles, Count 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 

“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 uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts… for support rather than illumination.”  Andrew Lang 

“He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.”  Billy Wilder

“I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.” Groucho 
 

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