A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke. (Groucho Marx)
What do you think about western civilization?
- I think it´s a good idea. (Mahatma Gandhi)
Never miss a good chance to shut up. (Will Rogers)
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone´s feelings unintentionally. (Oscar Wilde)
I´d rather have two girls at 21 each than one girl at 42. (W.C. Fields)
My specialty is being right when other people are wrong. (George Bernard Shaw)
Death is life´s way of telling that you´ve been fired. (R. Geis)
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. (Albert Einstein)
Sir, you're drunk!
- Yes, madam, I am drunk. But in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. (Winston Churchill to Lady Astor)
Sir, if I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee!
- Madam, if I were your husband I would drink it. (Winston Churchill to Lady Astor)
When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick. (George Burns who died at 100)
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. (George Patton)
When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself. (Peter O'Toole)
Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose. (Robin Williams)
I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil. (Uri Geller)
My mother never got the irony of calling me a son-of-a-bitch. (Jack Nicholson)
Why do you think you're so popular all of a sudden?
- I don't know, it must be the weather. (John Lennon 1964)
What do you think about the campaign in Detroit to stamp out the Beatles?
- We've got a campaign of our own to stamp out Detroit. (Paul McCartney)
Who writes all the music?
- What music? (John Lennon)
What do you think of Beethoven?
- He's great. Especially his poetry. (Ringo Starr)
What do you think of the criticism that you're not very good?
- We're not. (George Harrison)
When you do a new song, how do you decide who sings the lead?
- We just get together and whoever knows most of the words sings the lead. (John Lennon)
What do you think about topless bathing suits?
- We've been wearing them for years. (Ringo Starr)
Would you like to walk down the street without being recognised?
- We used to do that with no money in our pockets. There's no point in it. (John Lennon)
Why does it [Beatles' music] excite them so much?
- If we knew, we'd form another group and be managers. (John Lennon)
People who don´t have anything original to say quote others who do. (J-S 2004)
