The rapturous, wild, and ineffable pleasure of drinking at someone else’s expense. Henry Sambrooke Leigh Drinking, Funny, Pleasure You May Also Like Flattery is all right—if you don’t inhale. By Adlai Stevenson Compliment, Funny, Praise Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley. By Anonymous Bragging, Funny, Light, Proud I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep. That is deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas? By Jean Kerr Beauty, Funny A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast. By Edgar Watson Howe Age, Aging, Funny, Middle Age, Women Critics are like eunuchs in a harem. They know how it’s done; they’ve seen it done every day; but they’re unable to do it themselves. By BRENDAN BEHAN Criticism, Funny, Wise Meetings . . . are rather like cocktail parties. You don’t want to go, but you’re cross not to be asked. By Jilly Cooper Funny, Meetings
Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley. By Anonymous Bragging, Funny, Light, Proud
I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep. That is deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas? By Jean Kerr Beauty, Funny
A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast. By Edgar Watson Howe Age, Aging, Funny, Middle Age, Women
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem. They know how it’s done; they’ve seen it done every day; but they’re unable to do it themselves. By BRENDAN BEHAN Criticism, Funny, Wise
Meetings . . . are rather like cocktail parties. You don’t want to go, but you’re cross not to be asked. By Jilly Cooper Funny, Meetings
