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- Interpreter: One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- In all honesty, Johnny, we are often at the mercy of the White House for the news we report. Frequently, we simply repeat verbatim what the White House tells us.
- Connie Chung to Johnny Carson
- How much of the national news that you report to the public each night consists of information you've actually gone out and dug up on your own?
- Johnny Carson to Connie Chung
- Being a newspaper columnist is like marrying a nymphomaniac - It's great for the first two weeks.
- Lewis Grizzard
- It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
- P.D. James
- When I think of the number of disagreeable people that I know who have gone to a better world, I am sure hell won't be so bad at all.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
- Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
- Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.
- Peter S. Prescott
- To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- A pious man is one who would be an athiest if the king were.
- Jean de La Bruyere (1645 - 1696)
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