"If a tree dies, plant another in its place." Carl Linnaeus
"She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever." Mary Russell Mitford
"Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead." Sinclair Lewis
"`Who shot him?' I asked.
The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: `Somebody with a gun.'"
Dashiell Hammett
"Youth is something very new. Twenty years ago no one mentioned it." Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel
"We heard from the abortionists and we heard from the people who looked like Jacks, acted like Jills and had the odors of Johns." George Meany
  • Peter Marshall: "A western saddle has a curved horn on the front to hold something for the cowboy. What is it?"
  • Paul Lynde: "A passenger."
    (06/13/1926 – 01/10/1982)
    US comic, actor
Paul Lynde
"I refer to jet lag as 'jet-psychosis'—there's an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel." Spalding Gray