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Rowdyboy

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9. Alice Roosevelt Longworth speaking of her father, Teddy Roosevelt:

Tue May 22, 2012, 01:38 AM

May 2012

"When Theodore attends a wedding, he wants to be the bride, and when he attends a funeral, he wants to be the corpse". Speaking of Calvin Coolidge she quipped "He looks as if he's been weaned on a pickle".

Harry S Truman speaking of Richard Nixon: "Richard Nixon is a no-good lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and even if he caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in".

John F Kennedy: "Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and northern charm"

Lyndon Johnson onGerald Ford: "Gerry Ford is a nice guy, but he played too much football without a helmet" and also ""Gerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time."

and, finally the master-Oscar Wilde: "Some cause happiness whereever they go; others whenever they go"

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Elegant and funny insults.... [View all] opiate69 May 2012 OP

There's also that legendary one about sleeping with somebody for a certain amount of money RZM May 2012 #1

The Coolidge exchange is supposedly true. Chan790 May 2012 #11

I didn't know that RZM May 2012 #12

Another Churchill gem WhoIsNumberNone May 2012 #2

Churchill ate barbs for breakfast. rug May 2012 #3

He was the master, no question... opiate69 May 2012 #5

"Are you going to keep talking while you think of something to say?" Kaleva May 2012 #4

Damn! I hope my department has another meeting soon, because that one petronius May 2012 #6

lol opiate69 May 2012 #7

"There's a name for you ladies, begin_within May 2012 #8

Quotable Bitches, never been in a kennel crunch60 May 2012 #39

Alice Roosevelt Longworth speaking of her father, Teddy Roosevelt: Rowdyboy May 2012 #9

Also from Alice-- eridani May 2012 #14

"Steel Magnolias" writer stole that line from Alice and its one of the funniest in the entire movie Rowdyboy May 2012 #15

In 1922, a woman let Dorthy Parker enter a door before her, saying... FayeKane May 2012 #10

It was no less than Claire Booth Luce hifiguy May 2012 #17

Dear Molly Ivins re George Bush sarge43 May 2012 #13

And Ann Richards KamaAina May 2012 #18

I understand Ann and Molly were good friends sarge43 May 2012 #20

They were very good friends, AFAIK, and I've always thought hifiguy May 2012 #23

They surely did exchange studied insults about the target du jour. sarge43 May 2012 #30

There would be nothing left but a pair of smoking shoes hifiguy May 2012 #31

Would have nuked the dweeb. n/t sarge43 May 2012 #32

And don't forget: lastlib May 2012 #26

IIRC Churchill also referred to Atlee as "a sheep in hifiguy May 2012 #16

A Toronto review of Keanu Reeves' Hamlet KamaAina May 2012 #19

A critic's take on Burton's performance in Anne of a Thousand Days sarge43 May 2012 #21

Stooges Style - Sorry couldnt resist benld74 May 2012 #22

Between Canada's Trudeau and Richard Nixon sharp_stick May 2012 #24

another one (also, I think attributed to W. Churchill): lastlib May 2012 #25

A Congressman for whom I campaigned many years ago... lastlib May 2012 #27

Tallulah Bankhead solara May 2012 #28

Two of my Tallulah favorites sarge43 May 2012 #29

Oh yes! solara May 2012 #33

On her deathbed, her final words were "Codeine....bourbon..." ....She was quite a woman Rowdyboy May 2012 #38

I just checked my bookshelf HeiressofBickworth May 2012 #34

lmao! America's very first teabagger freeper! opiate69 May 2012 #35

Oscar Wilde......"He has no enemies.... Rowdyboy May 2012 #36

During the last years of his second term Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke and was incapacitated.... Rowdyboy May 2012 #37