This was too good not to pass along.\u00c2\u00a0 No, I haven’t run it past Snopes; it really doesn’t matter to me if the quotes were ever truly uttered by those they’re attributed to… they’re still worth pondering.\u00c2\u00a0 Thanks David, for sharing!<\/p>\n
“A modest little person, with much to be modest about” — Winston Churchill<\/p>\n
“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with\u00c2\u00a0great pleasure.”
\n— Clarence Darrow<\/p>\n
“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”
\n— William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)<\/p>\n
“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?”
\n— Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)<\/p>\n
“He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.” — Abraham Lincoln<\/p>\n
“I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.” — Groucho Marx<\/p>\n
“I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.” — Mark Twain<\/p>\n
“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends. — Oscar Wilde<\/p>\n
“I enclose two tickets to the first night of my new play;\u00c2\u00a0bring a friend… if you have one.”
\n— George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill<\/p>\n
“Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one.” — Winston Churchill, in response.<\/p>\n
“He is a self-made man and worships his creator.” — John Bright<\/p>\n
“I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.” — Irvin S. Cobb<\/p>\n
“He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.”\u00c2\u00a0 — Billy Wilder<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n
“He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others.”\u00c2\u00a0 — Samuel Johnson<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n “He had delusions of adequacy.”\u00c2\u00a0— Walter Kerr<\/p>\n “There’s nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won’t cure.” — Jack E. Leonard<\/p>\n “They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.” — Thomas Brackett Reed<\/p>\n “In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.” — Charles Count Talleyrand<\/p>\n “He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.” — Forrest Tucker<\/p>\n “Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?” — Mark Twain<\/p>\n “His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.” — Mae West<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This was too good not to pass along.\u00c2\u00a0 No, I haven’t run it past Snopes; it really doesn’t matter to me if the quotes were ever truly uttered by those they’re attributed to… they’re still worth pondering.\u00c2\u00a0 Thanks David, for … Continue reading