Quips Quotes

In the absence of a formally agreed, worldwide dictionary definition of 'Quotography' (in 2016), here are my two cents worth: 'Quotography is the art of pairing unique quotations with complementary images in order to express thought-provoking ideas, challenging concepts, profound sentiments'.

~ Alex Morritt

Danger is the snack food of a true sleuth.

~ Mac Barnett

On a wing and a prayer. (After being asked how the angels make love in Milton's Paradise Lost).

~ Benjamin R. Smith

No Groucho is not my real name. I am breaking it in for a friend.

~ Groucho Marx

I have admired W.C. Fields since the day he advanced upon Baby LeRoy with an ice pick. Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.

~ Leo Rosten

One bliss for which there is no match is when you itch to up and scratch.

~ Ogden Nash

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

~ Max Beerbohm

Only two things are infinite the universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the former.

~ Albert Einstein

Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar.

~ Sigmund Freud

The blind man is laughing at the bald head.

~ Persian Proverb

The net of the sleeper catches fish.

~ Greek Proverb

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

~ Gertrude Stein

We are the people our parents warned us about.

~ Graffiti

Worthless as wither'd weeds.

~ Emily Brontë

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

~ George Herbert

Rip van Winkle was lazy.

~ Robert H. Gurney

A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.

~ Peter Ustinov

A man surprised is half beaten.

~ Thomas Fuller

A nimble sixpence is better than a slow shilling.

~ English Proverb

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

~ Dorothy Parker

Every path has its puddle.

~ Old Saying

Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.

~ Oscar Levant

Evil spelled backward is live.

~ Graffiti

Forgetting of a wrong is a mild revenge.

~ Thomas Fuller

He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn't ordered.

~ Ring Lardner

Heat madam! It was so dreadful that I found there was nothing for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.

~ Sydney Smith

I am an atheist. I don't believe in Zeus.

~ Graffiti

I don't deserve this but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

~ Jack Benny

I don't know much about being a millionaire but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.

~ Dorothy Parker

I never said I want to be alone. I only said I want to be left alone. There is all the difference.

~ Greta Garbo

In baiting a mousetrap with cheese always leave room for the mouse.

~ Saki

In the ant's house the dew is a flood.

~ Old Saying

India is a geographical term. It is no more a United Nation than the Equator.

~ Winston Churchill

Judas needed the money for a sick friend.

~ Graffiti

Judge Crater - please call your office.

~ Graffiti

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

~ Tom Lehrer

He wouldn't give a duck a drink if he owned Lake Michigan.

~ Anonymous

Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't put his pants on.

~ Arthur K. Watson

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Alimony: the cash surrender value of a husband.

~ Anonymous