Funny Quotes - Page 17
H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Quoted in People, 26 Dec. 1977. Although now associated with Tomlin, this saying appears anonymously in Robert Reisner, Graffiti (1971), in the form "Remember, even if you win the rat race - you're still a rat." Rosalie Maggio, in New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women, states that William Sloane Coffin said "Even if you win the rat-race, you're still a rat" as a chaplain at Williams College or Yale University in the 1950s or 1960s.
I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.
George Burns (1980). “Living It Up”, Berkley
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.24, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Quoted in More Maxims of Mark, ed. Merle Johnson (1927)
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
"Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, p. 362, 1977.
Quoted in Dick Schaap and Mort Gerberg's Joy in Mudville: The Big Book of Baseball Humor Reflections (p. 185)