George Bernard Shaw wrote to Winston Churchill:

"Dear Mr. Churchill: Enclosed are two tickets to my new play which opens Thursday night. Please come and bring a friend, if you have one."

Sir Winston Churchill replied: "Sorry, I have a previous engagement and cannot attend your opening. However, I will come to the second performance, if there is one..."

 

More of my Favorite quotations

Now who you jiving with that cosmic debris?          Francis Vincent Zappa

Onward thru the fog.         Oat Willie (presidential candidate 1972)

Double Standard? Equal pay; you pick up the check. I see nothing wrong with a double standard.         Lady Di (an old Girlfriend)

I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.               Dorothy Gale

Cop; "What's this powder?"  "Aspirin," said Lenny Bruce.

Cop; "What's the spoon for?"

"I can't stand the taste of the stuff!"

Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big.

and

Just think how stupid the average person is,
and then realize that half of them
are even stupider!

--George Carlin

 

Life is very short, and there's no time

 

for fussing and fighting, my friend     .

----- Lennon/McCartney

We stole it fair and square.     S. I. Hayakawa

What'cha lookin at? Ain't ya ever seen a Gent?   The Artful Dodger (from Oliver)

OK Kisse (I'll marry you), but I won't be a Christian and I won't eat no pork!    Kunta Kinte

I feel Psychedelic plants were put on this earth to help us evolve as a species. OK, not the most popular of ideas... Bill Hicks

Some folks ain't got much food, but they got a lot of forks and knives, and they gotta cut something.       Robert Zimmerman

Each one of us has his own special gifts. You know it was meant to be true...

And if you don't underestimate me, I won't underestimate you...

Bobby Dylan, Dear Landlord

The lord promised: "Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall..." --1 Kings 14:10. (This unsanitary practice caused some serious erosion of the mud walls). unsure of author

 

Read about my man Bill Hicks