THE CHALLENGE, ARE YOU UP TO IT? These glorious insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words: The challenge is to see which ones could apply to Barry Obama. · * 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. · * He had delusions of adequacy. - Walter Kerr · * He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. - Winston Churchill * I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. Clarence Darrow · * He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary. - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway). · * Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; Ill waste no time reading it. - Moses Hadas · * I didnt attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. - Mark Twain * He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.. - Oscar Wilde * 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. * I feel so miserable without you; its almost like having you here. - Stephen Bishop * He is a self-made man and worships his creator. - John Bright · * Ive just learned about his illness. Lets hope its nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb * He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others. - Samuel Johnson * He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up. - Paul Keating * In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily. - Charles, Count Talleyrand * He loves nature in spite of what it did to him. - Forrest Tucker * Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it? - Mark Twain * His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork. - Mae West * Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde * He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination. - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) * He has Van Goghs ear for music. - Billy Wilder · * Ive had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasnt it. - Groucho Marx
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