"He can compress the most words into the smallest
idea of any man I know." - Abraham Lincoln
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But, this
wasn't it." - Groucho Marx
"He has the attention span of a lightning bolt." -
Robert Redford
"They never open their mouths without subtracting
from the sum of human knowledge." - Thomas Brackett Reed
"He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker
forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame
them."- James Reston (about Richard Nixon)
"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she
always yielded easily." - Charles, Count Talleyrand
"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."
- Forrest Tucker
"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope
without any address on it?" - Mark Twain
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice
letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain
"His mother should have thrown him away and kept
the stork." - Mae West
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others,
whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by
his friends." - Oscar Wilde
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-
posts ... for support rather than illumination." -
Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
"He has Van Gogh's ear for music." - Billy Wilder
