by accordionMan » Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:19 am
These aren't bumper stickers, but they are in the spirit of bumper stickers that I love so much... very clever:
1) The exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor:
She said, 'If you were my husband I'd give you poison,'
and he said, 'If you were my wife, I'd drink it.'
2) A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.' 'That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.'
3) 'He had delusions of adequacy.'
- Walter Kerr
4) 'He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.'
- Winston Churchill
5) 'A modest little person, with much to be modest about.'
- Winston Churchill
6) 'I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.'
- Clarence Darrow
7) 'He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.'
- William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).
8) 'Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words ?'
- Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)
9) 'Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it.'
- Moses Hadas
10) 'He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.'
- Abraham Lincoln
11) 'I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.'
- Mark Twain
12) 'He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.'
- Oscar Wilde
13) '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
14) 'Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one.'
- Winston Churchill, in response.
15) 'I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here.'
- Stephen Bishop
16) 'He is a self-made man and worships his creator.'
- John Bright
17) 'I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.'
- Irvin S. Cobb
18) 'He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others.'
- Samuel Johnson
19) 'He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.'
- Paul Keating
20) 'There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure.'
Jack E. Leonard
21) 'He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.'
- Robert Redford
22) 'They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.'
- Thomas Brackett Reed
23) 'In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.'
- Charles, Count Talleyrand
24) 'He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.' -
Forrest Tucker
25) 'Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?'
- Mark Twain
26) 'His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.'
- Mae West
27) 'Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.'
-Oscar Wilde
28) 'He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts...for support rather than illumination.'
- Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
29) 'He has Van Gogh's ear for music.'
- Billy Wilder
30) 'I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.'
- Groucho Marx