"Preposition: An enormously versatile part of grammar, as in
'What made you pick this book I didn't want to be read to out of up
for?'"
~ Winston Churchill ~
"There would be no population explosion if people who are
trying to keep the wolf from the door wouldn't let the stork fly in
through the window."
~ Evan Esar ~
"Some girls fight against being caressed, while others take
it lying down."
~ Anon ~
"I wanted to be an atheist, but I gave it up. They have no
holidays."
~ Henry Youngman ~
"She looked like butter wouldn't melt in her mouth - or
anywhere else."
~ Elsa Lancaster ~
"He who rests on his laurels wears them on wrong end."
~ Unknown ~
"The Three Ages of Marriage: Twenty is when you watch the TV
after. Forty is when you watch the TV during. Sixty is when you watch
the TV instead."
~ Bertram Toy ~
"The other night I said to my wife Ruth, 'Do you feel that
the sex and excitement has gone out of our marriage?' Ruth said, 'I'll
discuss it with you during the next commercial."
~ Milton Berle ~
"Censor: a man who knows more than he thinks you ought
to."
~ Laurence Peter ~
"Making a speech on economics is a bit like pissing down your
leg. It seems hot to you but never to anyone else."
~ Lyndon B Johnson ~
"What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from
the unfit, to do the unnecessary."
~ Richard Harkness, The New York Times, 1960 ~
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole
relationships."
~ Sharon Stone ~
"Don't worry about the world ending today. It's already
tomorrow in Australia."
~ Unknown ~
"The musical equivalent of St. Pancras Station."
~ Sir Thomas Beecham on Elgar's Symphony in A Flat. ~
"I've posed in the nude for a photographer in the manner of
Rodin's Thinker but I merely looked constipated."
~ George Bernard Shaw ~
"God made man before woman to give him time to think of an
answer for her first question."
~ Anonymous ~
"See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis,
and only enough blood to run one at a time."
~ Robin Williams ~
"Nothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party
you wouldn't be seen dead at."
~ Bill Vaughan ~
"If love is the answer, could you rephrase the
question?"
~ Lily Tomlin ~
"As for that topsy turvy tangle known as soixante-neuf,
personally, I have always felt it to be madly confusing, like trying to
pat your head and rub your stomach at the same time."
~ Helen Lawrenson ~
"In this life all that I have is my word and my balls and I
do not break them for nobody."
~ Al Capone ~
"Some people blow their top, but all people blow their
bottom."
~ Evan Esar ~
"Marriage is a wonderful institution. But who wants to live
in an institution?"
~ Groucho Marx ~
"Laughter is an orgasm triggered by the intercourse of reason
with unreason."
~ Jack Kroll ~
"My new dress. Do you like it? It's from my favorite
designer, On Sale."
~ Rita Rudner ~
"She was known as the virgin queen... she was always on the
verge."
~ Gerald F Lieberman ~
"I love the lines the men use to get us into bed. 'Please,
I'll only put it in for a minute.' What am I, a microwave?"
~ Beverly Mickins ~
"He may have hairs on his chest; but, sister, so has
Lassie."
~ Cole Porter ~
"Have you noticed that all the people in favor of birth
control are already born?"
~ Benny Hill ~
"A committee is a group of people who individually can do
nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done."
~ Fred Allen ~
"There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that
many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they
cause severe swelling. So what's the problem?"
~ Jay Leno ~
"Don't make me come down there!"
~ God ~
"A little tomato who knows her onions can go out with an old
potato and come home with a lot of lettuce and a couple of carats."
~ Herbert V Prochnow ~
"He was a man of parts, but badly assembled."
~ Nancy Boyd ~
"She's what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her
own hand."
~ Saul Bellow ~
"Here lies my wife.
Here let her lie!
Now she's at rest. And so am I."
~ John Dryden (proposed) Epitaph for his wife ~
"A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your
mother."
~ Anon ~
"The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence
and obsolescence."
~ Art Linkletter, A Child's Garden of Misinformation, 1965.
"Sexual intercourse... a joyous, joyous, joyous, joyous
impaling of woman on man's sensual mast."
~ Anais Nin ~
"Satisfaction will come to those who please themselves."
~ Arnold Lobel (on masturbation) ~
"Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be
drawn and quoted."
~ Fred Allen ~
"Commuter - one who spends his life
In riding to and from his wife;
A man who shaves and takes a train,
And then rides back to shave again."
~ E.B. White ~
"Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is
always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs."
~ PJ O'Rourke ~
"He makes love like a footballer! He dribbles before he
shoots."
~ John Cooper Clarke ~
"Old people like to give good advice as solace for no longer
being able to provide a bad example."
~ De la Rouchefoucauld ~
"This may be the age of automation, but love is still being
made by hand."
~ Evan Esar ~
"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a
son-of-a-bitch."
~ Jack Nicholson ~
"A man's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have
another drink."
~ W.C. Fields ~
"Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month
of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar."
~ Marguerite, Countess of Blessington ~
"Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable
occasion."
~ Spike Milligan ~
"Oh! I'll wait 6 years to read it, when she'll be 18!"
~ Groucho Marx, on hearing about the novel Lolita ~
"A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar
and someone had licked it."
~ George Bernard Shaw ~
"You know why God is a man? Because if God was a woman she
would have made sperm taste like chocolate."
~ Carrie Snow ~
"The silence went straight from rapt to fraught without
pausing at pregnant."
~ Bernard Levin ~
"Love is so confusing. You tell a girl she looks great and
then what's the first thing you do? Turn out the lights!"
~ Robert Orben ~
"Ever wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of
alphabet soup?"
~ John Mendoza ~
"To enter life by way of the vagina is as good a way as
any."
~ Henry Miller ~
"Journalism: a profession whose business it is to explain to
others what it personally does not understand."
~ Lord Northcliffe ~
"I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late,
start without me."
~ Tallulah Bankhead ~
"You wanna hear my personal opinion on prostitution? If men
knew how to do it, they wouldn't have to pay for it."
~ Roseanne ~
"Isn't it possible to get a cup of coffee-flavored coffee
anymore in this country? What happened with coffee? Did I miss a
meeting? They have every other flavor but coffee-flavored coffee. They
have mochaccino, frappaccino, cappuccino, al pacino... Coffee doesn't
need a menu, it needs a cup."
~ Denis Leary ~
"A nymphomaniac is a woman who takes on the husbands of other
women so as not wear out her own."
~ Evan Esar ~
"Die, my dear doctor? That's the last thing I shall do."
~ Lord Palmerston ~
"We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take
separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage
together."
~ Rodney Dangerfield ~
"A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he
can't help himself."
~ Henry Morgan ~
"Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good
partner, you'd better have a good hand."
~ Unknown ~
"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out
of me."
~ Winston Churchill ~
"Little Red Riding Hood is a Russian contraceptive."
~ Anon ~
"Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old
mistresses."
~ Lord Beaverbrook: attrib. ~
"The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is
that sex for money usually costs a lot less."
~ Brendan Francis ~
"Should not the Society of Indexers be known as Indexers,
Society of, The?"
~ Keith Waterhouse ~
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one
bastard."
~ Dorothy Parker (on pregnancy) ~
"Neurotics build castles in the air. Psychotics live in them.
Psychiatrists charge the rent."
~ Anon graffiti, also attrib to Jerome Lawrence ~
"The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths
they've been in."
~ Dennis Potter ~
"I never married because I have three pets at home that
answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every
morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home
late at night."
~ Marie Correli ~
"Autobiography: an obituary in serial form with the last
instalment missing."
~ Quentin Crisp ~
"Aural sex makes you prick up your ears."
~ John W Grant ~
"The closest I ever came to a ménage a trois was when I
dated a schizophrenic."
~ Rita Rudner ~
"Living in New York I have six locks on my door all in a row.
When I go out, I lock every *other* one. I figure no matter how long a
burglar stands there picking the locks, they are always locking
three."
~ Elayne Boosler ~
"First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you
forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it
down."
~ George Burns ~
"I'm glad I'm not bisexual. I couldn't stand being rejected
by men as well as women."
~ Bernard Manning ~
"Time is short and we must seize Those pleasures found above
the knees."
~ Richard Eyre ~
"The marvellous thing about a joke with a double meaning is
that it can only mean one thing."
~ Ronnie Barker ~
"Working for Warner Bros is like fucking a porcupine; it's a
hundred pricks against one."
~ Wilson Minzner ~
"Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery
acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other
one off."
~ Tommy Cooper ~
"Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the
brakes on."
~Budd Schulberg ~
"The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves
tension and love causes it."
~ Woody Allen ~
"I can see from your utter misery, from your eagerness to
misunderstand each other, and from your thoroughly bad temper that this
is the real thing."
~ Peter Ustinov ~
"Too many cooks spoil the brothel."
~ Polly Adler ~
"The most important thing in acting is to be able to laugh
and cry. If I have to cry, I think of my sex life. If I have to laugh, I
think of my sex life."
~ Glenda Jackson ~
"The noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand
that bites it."
~ Laurence J Peter ~
"Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my
mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will
leave Oxford by the next town drain."
~ William Spooner ~
"If a light sleeper can't sleep with a light on, why can a
hard sleeper sleep with a hard-on?"
~ Lin Tucci ~
"Yes, I had him cremated and his ashes made into an eggtimer.
He never did any work while he was alive, so he might as well as well do
some now he's dead."
~ Anon ~
"As she lay there dozing next to me, one voice inside my head
kept saying, 'Relax... you are not the first doctor to sleep with one of
his patients'.