Thoughts of an old curmudgeon
“One difference between politics and football is that if you don’t know anything about football and keep yelling nonsensically at the people who do, someone will come along and politely ask you to leave the party. If you know nothing about politics but shout loudly enough, sometimes they give you your own TV show or elect you to something. It is one of the risks you take. ” – Alexandra Petri
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
– Douglas Adams
“After all, what is your hosts’ purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they’d have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.”
– P. J. O’Rourke
“Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.”
– Mike Royko
“It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.”
– H. L. Mencken
“If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.”
– Brendan Behan
“Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.”
– G. K. Chesterton
“Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.”
– Sinclair Lewis
“America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.”
– G. B. Shaw
