Humor Friday

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they’re going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

—Elizabeth Taylor (MGM publicity still, 1950s; Public Domain)

Humor Friday

Whenever a man’s friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

—Washington Irving (by Mathew Brady; Public Domain)

Humor Friday: On Age

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

—George Eliot, 19^th century English novelist, pen name for Mary Ann Evans (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)

Humor Friday: The Honest Curmudgeon

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

—Robert Frost (by Frank Palumbo, World Telegram; Public Domain)

Humor Friday: Steinbeck on the Sport of Fishing

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

—John Steinbeck (1939, by McFadden Publications; Public Domain)

Humor Friday

Millionaires don’t use astrology; billionaires do.

—John Pierpont Morgan (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)

Humor Friday

He’s a fool that makes his doctor his heir.

—Benjamin Franklin (1778, by Joseph Duplessis; Public Domain)

Humor Friday: History Edition

If Hitler invaded hell, I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

—Winston Churchill (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)

Humor Friday

I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.

—Robert Frost (by Fred Palumbo, World Telegram; Public Domain)

Humor Friday

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

—Henry Kissinger (1973, US Dept. of State; Public Domain)