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- Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.
- Robert Byrne
- The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel.
- Eduard Hanslick
- Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Savielly Grigorievitcyh Tartakower
- Lactomangulation, n.:
Manhandling the "open here" spout on a milk carton so badly that one has to resort to using the "illegal" side. - Rich Hall, "Sniglets"
- After all, what is your hosts' purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
- The main thing is you and I should exist, and that we should be you and I. Apart from that let everything go as it likes. The best order of things to my way thinking, is the one I was meant to be part of, and to hell with the most perfect of worlds if I am not in it. I would rather exist, even as an impudent argufier, than not exist at all.
- Jean-Francois Rameau
- When I get smitten, I stay smut.
- Charlie McCarthy
- I don't want prizes. I turned down the National Institute of Arts and Letters when I was elected to it in 1976 on the grounds that I already belonged to the Diner's Club.
- Gore Vidal (1925 - )
- The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody and still nobody likes him.
- Jim Samuels
- Gifts are like hooks.
- Marcus Valerius Martialis (40 AD - 103 AD)
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