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WHEN INSULTS HAD CLASS
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Winston Churchill
A modest little person, with much to be modest about.
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)
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?
Ernest Hemingway
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time in reading it.
Moses Hadas
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
Abraham Lincoln
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
Groucho Marx
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. Let¹s hope it¹s 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
He had delusions of adequacy.
Walter Kerr
There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure.
Jack E. Leonard
They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.
Thomas Brackett Reed
He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.
James Reston (about Richard Nixon)
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...
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
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"we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope" Rom. 5:3-4
"So we can suffer, and in suffering we know who we are" David Goggins
"Aide-toi, Dieu t'aidera " Jehanne, la Pucelle
Der, der Geld verliert, verliert einiges;
Der, der einen Freund verliert, verliert viel mehr;
Der, der das Vertrauen verliert, verliert alles.
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