style="text-align: justify;">Today’s piece of humor as nothing to do with investments, but concerns soms glorious insults from an era before the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words. Enjoy!
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/> The exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor:
/> She said, “If you were my husband I’d poison your tea.”
/> He said, “If you were my wife, I’d drink it.”
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style="color: #008000;">A member of Parliament to Disraeli: “Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.”
/> “That depends, Sir,” said Disraeli, “whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.”
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style="color: #000080;">“He had delusions of adequacy.” – Walter Kerr
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style="color: #008000;">“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.” - Winston Churchill
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style="color: #000080;">“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.” Clarence Darrow
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style="color: #008000;">“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.” – William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).
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style="color: #000080;">“Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I’ll waste no time reading it.” – Moses Hadas
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style="color: #008000;">“I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.” – Mark Twain
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style="color: #000080;">“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends..” – Oscar Wilde
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style="color: #008000;">“I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend…. if you have one.” – George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
/> “Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second.. if there is one.” – Winston Churchill, in response.
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style="color: #000080;">“I feel so miserable without you; it’s almost like having you here.” – Stephen Bishop
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style="color: #008000;">“He is a self-made man and worships his creator.” – John Bright
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style="color: #000080;">“I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.” – Irvin S. Cobb
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style="color: #008000;">“He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others.” – Samuel Johnson
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style="color: #000080;">“He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.” – Paul Keating
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style="color: #008000;">“In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.” – Charles, Count Talleyrand
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style="color: #000080;">“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.” – Oscar Wilde
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style="color: #008000;">“He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts… for support rather than illumination.” – Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
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style="color: #000080;">“He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.” – Billy Wilder
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style="color: #008000;">“I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.” – Groucho Marx.
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