Quotes 241 till 260 of 3899.
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'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
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'Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.
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'Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
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A 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
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A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
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A baseball park is the one place where a man's wife doesn't mind his getting excited over somebody else's curves.
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A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
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A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.
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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
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A canner exceedingly canny
One morning remarked to his granny:
'A canny canner can can
Anything that he can
But a canner can't can a can, can he?' -
A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'
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A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.
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A child who plays a game of football for one season without any documented concussion - several months after that season, if you subject his brain to sophisticated psychological testing and radiological testing, functional MRIs, there is evidence of brain damage.
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A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on.
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A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.
Bobby Darin
American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973) -
A comic, you have to be looking down at him. My favorite rooms, the audience is above the stage, stadium-style.
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