S. J. Perelman

I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.

I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse.

Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.

A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city.

He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.

A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short term notes containing a fool and his wife who didnt know enough to stay in the city.

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.