I recommend to you, in my last, an innocent piece of art: that of flattering people behind their backs, in presence of those who, to make their own court, much more than for your sake, will not fail to repeat, and even amplify, the praise to the party concerned. This is of all flattery the most pleasing, and consequently the most effectual.
Doug StanhopeI sometimes wonder if necrophiliacs are really into dead people or if they just enjoy the quiet.
Doug StanhopeI'm not saying drinking is all that great but you know it's got benefits; you can't smoke somebody pretty.
Doug Stanhope