"If you give a man a hammer, he thinks he can solve all problems by pounding. Well, God gave men penises....












Choose old people for enemies. They die. You win.
More Jacob M. Appel quotes
"The boss is never your friend, even if you're sleeping with him.
"The only thing more difficult than persuading someone else to start having sex with you is persuading yourself to stop.
"Be optimistic. Always put on clean underwear if you're going on a date.
"Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitab...
"This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white ...
"Maybe that is the greatest of wonders: that we can be shaped so much by those we've known closely, and equally by those we've never known at all - and...
"The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in the status quo, so wrapped in ...
"A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the monkeys.
"Know your load. That’s rule numero uno in this business, which is why I make them count the penguins out in front of me one at a time. I’m not going t...
"Nothing spices up one's sex life like having a partner.
"To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the din without, the tidal strait between Manhattan Isla...
"Nixon’s offences had been so long in the past, so much part of a different era that he now seemed like some lovable but bigoted uncle you tolerated at...
"Arnold had never given much thought to whether or not he loved America—but now it seemed pretty obvious to him that he didn’t. Not in the way Nathan H...