We’ve been without power, phone, or heat for the last two days. Thanks to a generator I finally get online to check my e-mail. It’s necessary to have contact with the outside world. I have to catch up on essential communication. Important responses and information await me.
And this:
When Insults Had Class
“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”
— Winston Churchill“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries
with great pleasure.” — Clarence Darrow“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.” — William Faulkner
(about Ernest Hemingway)“I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.”
— Groucho Marx“I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I
approved of it.” — Mark Twain“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”
— Oscar Wilde“I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend… If you have one.”
— George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
… followed byChurchill’s response:
“Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second, if there
is one.” — Winston Churchill“I feel so miserable without you; it’s almost like having you here.” — Stephen Bishop
“I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.” — Irvin S. Cobb
“He had delusions of adequacy.” — Walter Kerr
“His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.”
— Mae WestLady Astor once remarked to Winston Churchill at a Dinner Party, “Winston, if you were my husband, I would poison
your coffee! ” Winston replied, “Madam if I were your husband I would drink it!”
I always remember the classic “Forgotten, but not gone.”
Succinct. Nice turn of a phrase. I like it.