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Funny Quotes - Page 292

Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.

"Michael Billington on actors" by Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2012.

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.

Quoted in Oliver Wendell Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1857 - 1858)

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.

John Fletcher, Nathan Field, Philip Massinger (1991). “The Bloody Brother: A Tragedy”

A dollar saved is a quarter earned.

John Ciardi (1972). “Manner of Speaking”

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1982). “Wilhelm Meister's Years of Travel or the Renunciants”, Riverrun Pr

When we don't have the words chocolate can speak volumes.

Joan Bauer (2005). “Backwater”, p.53, Penguin

I've got a friend whose nickname is "Shagger". You might think that's pretty cool. She doesn't like it.

"Jimmy Carr's 40 most memorable jokes: One-liners and videos galore to mark comic's 40th birthday" by Rob Leigh, www.mirror.co.uk. September 14, 2012.