"I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people"
-Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle
"When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results."
-Former U.S. President Calvin Coolidge
"China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese"
-Former French President Charles De Gaulle
"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on."
-Samuel Goldwyn
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful.
How true that is."
-Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle at a fundraising event for the United Negro College Fund. He was attempting to quote the line "a mind is a terrible thing to waste"
"Sis, even if you were adopted, I'd still love you..".
American Greetings, from a 'less-than-tasteful' greeting card, 1997
"Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined."
-Samuel Goldwyn
"Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you won't either."
-Joseph Fischer
"Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it."
-Unknown
"It is important to keep an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out."
-Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.
"The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it."
-Doug Larson
"I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?"
-Carole Burnett
"Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you."
-Dorothy Parker, telegram to friend who had given birth
"The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any."
-Katharine Whitehorn
"Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing?"
-Katharine Whitehorn
"It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time."
-Tallula Bankhead