“She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say ‘when.’”
P.G. Wodehouse quoted by Joseph Bottum in First Things October 2005 # 156
“I married my wife for her looks – but not the ones she’s giving me lately.”
Image on a T-shirt emailed by a friend February 11, 2023.
“The symphony in B quiet”
One of mine, from May 1, 2002, regarding aggressively modernist music.
“By his own admission, [actor Stephen] Fry can’t dance and couldn’t carry a tune if it had handles.”
Rod Dreher in National Review May 31, 1999
“He broke into song because he couldn’t find the key.”
#3 in “Gilbert!’s Top 10 More Bad Puns” in Gilbert! Magazine Vol. 6 #7 (June 2003)
“Quit while you’re behind.”
Another of mine, from August 6, 2004, inspired by entering the quotation that was published on August 1 2023.
“Count me out. I’d rather die. Why, those vampires would suck me dry. They’d scrape the tan right off my face.”
Pheidippides resisting his father Strepsiades’ advice to study at Sokrates’ Thinkery so he can learn to cheat Strepsiades’ creditors, in Aristophanes The Clouds (translation by William Arrowsmith)
“’My 401(k) is now a 201(k), heading for a 101(k).’”
Thomas L. Friedman calling it “the dominant mood” of Americans, who wanted Bush to forget Iraq and fix the economy, in New York Times February 5, 2003