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    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 by Churchill'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

    "He is a self-made man and worships his creator."
    -- John Bright

    "I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
    -- Irvin S Cobb

    "He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others."
    -- Samuel Johnson

    "He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."
    -- Paul Keating

    "He had delusions of adequacy."
    -- Walter Kerr

    "Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?"
    -- Mark Twain

    "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."
    -- Mae West

    "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
    -- Oscar Wilde
    Walsh's Bay Store Camp
    Frank Walsh

    Web Site: http://www.baystorecamp.com

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    "He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."
    -- Paul Keating


    That one really tickled me. :-)

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    Winstons reply to Shaw slays me.Good stuff!

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    I live by Clarence Darrow's.
    Walsh's Bay Store Camp
    Frank Walsh

    Web Site: http://www.baystorecamp.com

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