"Mad, is he? Then I hope he will bite some of my other generals." King George II
"Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this—Great God, grant that twice two be not four." Ivan Turgenev
"Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it." Marie Dressler
  • Man: "This is Ed Wynn, who's not such a fool as he looks."
  • Ed Wynn: "That's right. That's the great difference between me and my friend here."
    (11/09/1886 – 06/19/1966)
    US actor
Ed Wynn
"Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid." Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler
"I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort." Spiro T. Agnew
"This is no time to pull the rug out in the middle of the stream."
"If I were white, I could capture the world." Dorothy Dandridge
"In a dream you are never eighty." Anne Sexton
"The sheepskin conferred on a student by a college hardly compensates for the human hide that will be knocked off him later in the school of experience."
"It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English—up to fifty words used in correct context—no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese." Carl Sagan
"Why do I have to be an example for your kid? You be an example for your own kid." Bob Gibson