Authors:

Funny Quotes - Page 236

It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2633, e-artnow

During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.

"Sunday Observer; Brass Hat In Hand" by Russell Baker, www.nytimes.com. April 17, 1983.

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

Quoted in Art Spiegelman and Bob Schneider, Whole Grains: A Book of Quotations (1973). Although usually attributed toWright, it was credited toWill Rogers ("Tilt this country on end and everything loose will slide into Los Angeles") in the Washington Post, 17 May 1964.