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• He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.
• Well, anyway, I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized that like most books, it had too many words.
  The plot was the same one that all James Bond books have...
• He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue. -- Andrew Lang
• His philosophical works would have suited me better, but when I saw that he doubted everything, I concluded that I knew as much as he did, and that I didn't need anyone's help to be ignorant.
  -- from Candide, Voltaire...
• Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets.
  I do not mean his maker, but himself. -- Dean Inge...
• One evening Mr. Rudolph Block, of New York, found himself seated at dinner alongside Mr.
  Percival Pollard, the distinguished critic. "Mr. Pollard," said he, "my book, "The Biography of a Dead Cow", is published anonymously, but you can hardly be ignorant of its authorship....
• I got into an elevator at work and this man followed in after me.
  .. I pushed '1' and he just stood there... I said 'Hi, where you going?...
• In Response to the Heavy Mail Department: I did not say that Dan Quayle was so dumb he flunked his blood test.
  I know for a fact that his grade was D+, so I did not say that....