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Verbal Defense

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  • Like the little man on top of the wedding cake. -- Harold Ickes
  • Little things affect little minds. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • Mind is so open that the wind whistles through it. -- Heywood Braun
  • Nature not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write. -- A. E. Housman
  • Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache. -- Alan Bennett
  • Never trust a man who combs his hair straight from his left armpit. -- Alice Roosevelt Longworth (about Douglas MacArthur)
  • Next-day delivery in a nanosecond world. -- Van Jacobson
  • No more sense of direction than a bunch of firecrackers. -- Rob Wagner
  • No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast. -- W. S. Gilbert
  • No woman of our time has gone further with less mental equipment. -- Clifton Fadiman
  • Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. -- Oscar Wilde
  • Ordinarily he is insane. But he has lucid moments when he is only stupid. -- Heinrich Heine
  • Please try not to be such a wiener-head. -- Dave Barry
  • Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life. -- Ivy Compton-Burnett
  • Shakespeare never has six lines together without a fault. -- Samuel Johnson
  • Sharp as a sack full of wet mice. -- Foghorn Leghorn
  • She's a vacuum with nipples. -- Otto Preminger (about Marilyn Monroe)
  • She's been on more laps than a napkin. -- Walter Winchell
  • She's descended from a long line her mother listened to. -- Gypsy Rose Lee
  • She's good, being gone. -- William Shakespeare
  • She's got such a narrow mind, when she walks fast her earrings bang together. -- John Cantu
  • She's so pure, Moses couldn't even part her knees. -- Joan Rivers
  • She's the kind of woman who climbed the ladder of success - wrong by wrong. -- Mae West
  • She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression. -- C. S. Lewis
  • She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did. -- Ada Leverson
  • She got her good looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon. -- Groucho Marx
  • The youthful sparkle in his eyes is caused by his contact lenses, which he keeps highly polished. -- Sheila Graham (about Ronald Reagan)
  • There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure. -- Jack E. Leonard
  • There but for the grace of God, goes God. -- Winston Churchill

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