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C U R M U D G E O N S / cur-mud-geon
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(anyone who hates hypocrisy and pretense and has the temerity to say so;
anyone with the habit of pointing out unpleasant facts in an engaing and
humorous manner)
1. If men could get pregnant, Abortion would be a sacrament.( Florence Kennedy)
2. Acquaitance is a person whom we know well enough to borrow from,
but not well enough to lend to. ( Ambrose Bierce)
3. Disney, of course, has the best casting. If he doesnt like an actor, he just tears him up. (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband; show me a great actress,
and you've seen the devil. (W.C. Fields.)
5. To be an Adult is to be Alone. (Jean Rostand)
6. In America, sex is an Obsession, in ohter parts of the world, it is a Fact. (Marlene Dietrich)
7. America is the greatest of Opportunities and the worst of Influences. (George Santayana)
8. In America, through perssure of conformity, there is Freedom of Choice, but nothing
to choose from . (Peter Ustinov)
9. America is a mistake, a giant mistake! (Sigmund Freud)
10.Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise
their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles. (Paul Fusell)
11.The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless
greed known in history. (Joseph Conrad)
12.Americans are like a rich father, who wishes he knew how to give his on the hardships
that made him rich. (Robert Frost)
13.Americans can eat garbage, provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup, mustard, chili sauce
tabasco saue,cayenne pepper, or any other condiments which destroys the
original flavor of the dish. (Henry Miller)
14.The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear cut stupid moves, only complicated
stupid moves which makes us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them
which we are missing. (Gamal Abdel Nasser)
15.We (Americans) don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it. (Will Rogers)
16.Americans are broad minded people. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic,
a dope fiend, a wife beater, and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive----
something is wrong with him. (Art Buchwald)
17.Congress consits of one third, more or less, scoundrels; two thirds, more or less, idiots; and
three thirds, more or less, poltroons (Henry Lewis Mencken)
18.Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair
that some men should be happier than others. (Oscar Wilde)
19.Balles if the fairies' baseball. (Oscar Levant)
20.The trouble with Born Again Christians, is that they are even
bigger pain the second time around. (Herb Caen)
21.One should forgive their enemies, but not before they are hanged. (Heinrich Heine)
22.England is the most class ridden country under the sun.
It is a land of snobbery and priviledge, ruled largelky by the old and silly. (Geroge Orwell)
23.The English never smash a face. They just merely refrain from asking you to dinner. (Margaret Halsey)
24.I believe every human has a finite numbers of heartbeats.
I dont' intend to waste any of my time running around doing exercises. (Neil Armstrong)
25.When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. (Eric Hofffer)
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Name: infraternam meam
Home: Chicago, United States
About Me: I am now at the prime of my life
and have been married for the past 25 years.
Sickly at times, but wants to see the elixir vita,
so that I will be able to see my grandchildren from my two boys.
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