Quotes a la BIFF

Hemingway, Twain, and... Dennis the Menace. The best general quotes we've collected over the years.

General Quotes

  • A study listed in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: "Duh".
    -- Conan O'Brien

  • Advice for the day: If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: Take two aspirin and keep away from children.
    -- Unknown

  • Ah, yes, divorce......., from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
    -- Robin Williams

  • All thinking men are atheists.
    -- Ernest Hemingway

  • Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.
    -- Harry S Truman

  • Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
    -- Scott Adams, American cartoonist, creator of Dilbert

  • How come dumb stuff seems so smart while you're doing it?
    -- Dennis the Menace

  • I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have sense enough to do without my persuading them.
    -- Harry S Truman

  • I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, "Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go west."
    -- Richard Jeni

  • If guns kill people, then... pencils miss spel words, cars make people drive drunk, spoons made Rosie O'Donnel fat.
    -- Gun Owners of America (www.gunowners.org)

  • If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
    -- Johnny Carson

  • If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
    -- Mark Twain

  • Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house.
    -- Rod Stewart

  • It's a funny thing about free speech: It can't be just for your political friends. If freedom means anything, it is the one valuable gift you have to give to your worst enemies, in order to keep it for yourself.
    -- Doug Christie

  • My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty, and that's the law.
    -- Jerry Seinfeld

  • Never play cat and mouse games if you're a mouse.
    -- Don Addis

  • On one issue at least men and women agree: they both distrust women.
    -- H.L. Mencken

  • One of the problems of taking things apart and seeing how they work - supposing you're trying to find out how a cat works - you take that cat apart to see how it works, what you've got in your hands is a non-working cat. The cat wasn't a sort of clunky mechanism that was susceptible to our available tools of analysis.
    -- Douglas Adams

  • Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography.
    -- Paul Rodriguez

  • Suppose you were an idiot . . . And suppose you were a member of Congress . . . . But I repeat myself.
    -- Mark Twain

  • The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..."
    -- Isaac Asimov

  • Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.
    -- Benjamin Franklin

  • You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
    -- Dave Barry

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