They say children say the damnedest things. Well, adults do too. Sometimes, we speak without thinking. Sometimes, due to the multiple meanings of the words, the meaning of what we want to convey came out all wrong.
Have you ever in a moment of carelessness said something you wish you hadn’t?
This is a collection of hilarious things some people said. Some are slips of the tongue, some are tongue firmly in cheek, some are instances of speaking without thinking, and some are satirical.
Here goes…
Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken. - Yogi Berra
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. - John Barrymore
Don’t pay any attention to the critics. Don’t even ignore them. - Samuel Goldwyn
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. - Frank Lloyd Wright
Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn’t go see it. - Samuel Goldwyn
Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true. - Unknown
He didn’t say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech. - Richard Darman
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. - Franklin P. Jones
I always advise people never to give advice. - Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place. - Winston Churchill
I am a great mayor; I am an upstanding Christian man; I am an intelligent man; I am a deeply educated man; I am a humble man. - Marion Barry
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. - Everett Mckinley Dirksen
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