Friday, January 2, 2009

LAST WORDS II

Can you improve on these famous responses?

1. A US Senator speaking to Senator Henry Clay: "You speak for the present generation, but I speak for posterity."
2. "My wife won tickets for two to Hawaii."
3. A woman asked painter James McNeil Whistler whether genius was hereditary.
4. A young composer had written two pieces of music and asked the great Giaccomo Rossini to hear them both and say which he preferred. He played the first piece, whereupon Rossini said:
5. A tearful mother waved good-bye as her youngest child "left the nest." Turning to her husband, she cried, "You're all I have left." His reply:
6. Dorothy Parker, on being told that Calvin Coolidge was dead:
7. Teacher: "Johnny, if you had six pieces of candy and I asked you to give me four of them, how many would you have left?" Johnny's correct answer:
8. Abraham Lincoln was accused of being two-faced. His response:

Answers:

1. "Yes---and you seem resolved to speak until the arrival of your audience."
2. "She went twice." (Rodney Dangerfield)
3. "I cannot tell you, madam. Heaven has granted me no offspring."
4. "You need not play any more. I prefer the other one."
5. "I'm all you started with."
6. "How can they tell?"
7. "Six."
8. "If I had two faces, do you think I would wear this one?"

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