An expert
An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field.
Crazy enough?
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
Said to Wolfgang Pauli after his presentation of Heisenberg's and Pauli's nonlinear field theory of elementary particles, at Columbia University (1958), as reported by F. J. Dyson in his paper "Innovation in Physics"
Quantum mechanics, she is correct
I still have objections to the … beauty of quantum mechanics, but she is correct.
Drown in a bathtub
I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.
Interview on NPR's Morning Edition, May 25, 2001
Heartless attack
You have to have a heart to have an attack
Said of Peter Sellers who suffered 8 heart attacks when he inhaled amyl nitrites (poppers) as a sexual stimulant
Mrs. Lincoln
Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?
Coffee and genitals
The influence of coffee in stimulating the genital organs is notorious.
Silent killer of the night
The liver is the only thing standing between the smoker and death! Also certain other things have to be avoided... like, uh, feather beds, and romantic novels... and the, uh, touching of one's organs. Masturbation is the silent killer of the night! The vilest sin of self-pollution! It is the sin of Onan!
Sex is the sewer drain
Sex is the sewer drain of a healthy body, sir! Any use of the sexual act other than procreation is a waste of vital energy! Wasted seeds are wasted lives!
Run over by both sides
He who walks in the middle of the road gets run over by both sides
Faux Chinese Proverb