03 April 2007

great literary taunts

Jabber IM with old uncle dave 5:46 PM

"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

"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 (on 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

Grand Prize to Forrest Tucker -- who was an actor -- if you ask me!

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