Friday, March 13, 2009

Darkly Comical Quotes

My parents put a live teddy bear in my crib.
- Woody Allen

It is better to be a mouse in a cat’s mouth than a man in a lawyer’s hands
– Spanish proverb

Two farmers each claimed to own a certain cow. While one pulled on its head and the other pulled on its tail, the cow was milked by a lawyer. - Jewish parable

Whatever their contributions to our society, lawyer could be an important source of protein. - Guindon cartoon caption

Men have become the tools of their tools.
-Henry David Thoreau

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. - Mark Russel

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television
– Unknown

What luck for rulers that men do not think.
- Adolf Hitler

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilites. Truth isn’t. - Mark Twain

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. – Kurt Vonnegut

The world is divided into two classes—invalids and nurses.
– James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

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