Also been enjoying dipping into a splendid dictionary - Grumpy Old Wit, assembled by Rosemarie Jarski.

Samples

If you don't like the way I drive, stay off the sidewalk. (Joan Rivers)

These days, I favour older men. They don't have such awful taste in music.   (Jerri Hall)

Don't trust anyone whose job was created after 1990. (anon)

(Oscar Levant justifying a speeding ticket) You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's 7th Symphony and go slow.

The devil must be an optimist if he thinks he make people meaner. (Karl Kraus)

One of the b i g weaknesses of the male sex is just being completely unable to see through beauty.   (Candace Bushnell)

President Nixon's motto was if two wrongs don't make a right, try three.   (Norman Cousins)

Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes,working jobs we hate,so we can buy shit we don't need. (Chuck Palahniuk)


   Ivor