Quips of Wisdom

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not using it in a fruit salad.





Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.'
- Lillian Carter (mother of Jimmy Carter)

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I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: - 'No good in a bed, but fine against a wall.'
- Eleanor Roosevelt


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Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen.
I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.
- Mark Twain



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The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending;
and to have the two as close together as possible.
- George Burns


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Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.
- Victor Borge


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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
- Mark Twain



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By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one,
you'll become a philosopher.
- Socrates



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I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
- Groucho Marx



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My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe
- Jimmy Durante



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I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor



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Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups:
alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.
- Alex Levine



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My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.
- Rodney Dangerfield



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Money can't buy you happiness .... But it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
- Spike Milligan



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Until I was thirteen, I thought my name was SHUT UP.
- Joe Namath



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I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap.
- Bob Hope



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I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
- W. C. Fields



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We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress
- Will Rogers



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Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you.
- Winston Churchill



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Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty, but everything else starts to wear out,
fall out, or spread out.
- Phyllis Diller



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By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.
- Billy Crystal



And the cardiologist's diet: if it tastes good, spit it out.



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