Witty Quotes - Page 28
Song: I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
"Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, October 13, 2011.
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
Stendhal (1955). “The private diaries of Stendhal [pseud.]”
Diary, 17 Jan. 1912
Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.29, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
Attributed in W. Somerset Maugham, Christmas Holiday (1939)
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Fourth - and by Far the Most Recent - 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1990)
George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion
George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion
Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.56, Cornell University Press