“From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.”
– Groucho Marx
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Thoughts of an old curmudgeon
“From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.”
– Groucho Marx
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“I’m in favor of liberalized immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants. I’d let just about everybody in except the English.” – Calvin Trillin

“We need a president who’s fluent in at least one language.”
– Buck Henry

“I’m lazy. But it’s the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn’t like walking or carrying things.”
– Lech Walesa

“No statue has ever been put up to a critic.”
– Jean Sibelius

“Republicans understand the importance of bondage
between a mother and child.”
– Dan Quayle

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
– Soren Kierkegaard

“I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.”
– Everett Mckinley Dirksen
