“Someone once defined ‘committee’ as a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.”
A writer whose name I did not record in Chronicles magazine December 1990
“Paranoia: It could be sneaking up on you!”
Another of my own would-be witticisms, from January 2nd 1999.
Praises tobacco that “does not make me wish my mouth was in a different country the next day.”
Morton Flayer in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 3 #3 (December 1999)
“Beulah, peel me a grape!”
Mae West in I’m No Angel, quoted in Esprit de Corps Vol. 9 #2 (Dec. 2001) (see also https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024166/trivia)
“You’re so ugly you could be a modern art masterpiece.”
Gunnery Sargeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket]
“truthache”
Something a mirror can cause according to Walter Winchell, quoted in The New Republic November 5, 1990
“He is a modest man, with a great deal to be modest about.”
Winston Churchill about Clement Attlee, quoted by Richard John Neuhaus in First Things April 2002
“A good argument, when conducted properly, takes the time and full attention of two people.”
Erma Bombeck in When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It’s Time To Go Home, quoted in British Columbia Report July 26, 1999