| "A conservative sees a man drowning 50 feet from shore, throws him a 25 foot long rope, and tells him to swim to it. A liberal throws him a rope 50 feet long, then drops his end and goes off to perform another good deed." | Anonymous |
| "Conservative: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from a Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others." | Ambrose Bierce |
| "We still have one breath left and we're going to use it." | Doug Mientkiewicz, Red Sox first baseman |
| "If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error." | John Kenneth Galbraith |
| "I tell you, I don't get no respect. When I step into an elevator, the attendant looks at me and says, 'Basement?' " | Rodney Dangerfield |
| "It's wonderful to be famous as long as you remain unknown." | Edgar Degas |
| "The President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow." | Gracie Allen |
| "All you have to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself." | Johann Sebastian Bach |
| "That woman speaks 19 languages and can't say 'no' in any of them." | Dorothy Parker |
| "If English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for Texas." | Ma Ferguson, Texas governor, c. 1920 |
| "Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco." | Will Rogers |
| "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and applying the wrong remedies." | Groucho Marx |
| "Two penguins are standing on an iceberg. One penguin says to the other: You look like you're wearing a tuxedo. The other penguin says: What makes you so sure I'm not?" |
| "I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe." | Richard Gere |
| "In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car." | Larry Summers, Harvard University president |
| "If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" | Abraham Lincoln |
| "I'd like to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair." | Bette Davis , in 'Cabin in the Cotton' |
| "When I was four, I told my mother I wanted to be a rock star when I grow up. She said, 'You can't do both.'" | Steven Tyler, Aerosmith |
| "Money cannot bring you happiness, but at least you can be miserable in comfort." | Oscar Wilde |
| "On your left is Lombard Street, the second-crookest street in the world -- the most crooked of course being Wall Street." | San Francisco cable car operator |
| "Last week I stated that this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister and now wish to withdraw that statement." | Mark Twain |
| "Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." | Frank Zappa |
| "A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar." | Arthur Koestler |
| "It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous." | Robert Benchley |
| "By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you will become very happy; if you get a bad one, you will become a philosopher--and that is good for any man." | Socrates |
| "A relationship is like a shark - it has to keep moving forward or it dies. Well, what we have on our hands here is a dead shark." | Woody Allen |
| "Why does man kill? He kills for food. But, often times there must also be a beverage involved." | Woody Allen |
| "Going to church does not make a person religious, nor does going to school make a person educated, any more than going to a garage makes a person a car." | Laurence J. Peter |
| "For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off." | Johnny Carson |
| "Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein." | Joe Theismann, former quaterback |
| "Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked." | Yoga Berra, allegedly |
| "A doctor can bury his mistakes. An architect can only advise his clients to plant vines." | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| "Only in America." | Yogi Berra, -- Yogi Berra upon hearing that the mayor of Dublin was Jewish |
| "What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself." | Abraham Lincoln |
| "Always, scribble, scribble, scribble, eh, Mr. Gibbon?" | Duke of Gloucester, in 1781, after being presented a copy of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 2 |
| "Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." | Mark Twain |
| "Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more." | Mark Twain |
| "If Patrick Henry thought that taxation without representation was bad, he should see how bad it is WITH representation." | Old Farmer's Almanac |
| "Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul." | Marilyn Monroe |
| "Laughter is an instant vacation." | Milton Berle |
| "I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting." | Milton Berle, at the Comedians Hall of Fame induction ceremonies |
| "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 somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three." | Elayne Boosler |
| "He has all the qualities of a dog except loyalty." | Lyndon Johnson |
| "Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive." | G.K. Chesterton |
| "A family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain." | Martin Mull |
| "Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own." | Nelson Algren |
| "Unless we change direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed." | Chinese proverb |
| "Any idiot can face a crisis. It's the day-to-day living that wears you out." | Anton Chekhov |
| "The illegal we can do right now; the unconstituional will take a little longer." | Henry Kissinger |
| "Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes." | Henry David Thoreau |