Funny Bidding Quotes

#1. I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.

Carl Hiaasen

#2. Ossip, I think you are a humbug ... you are not even a doctor. But you are funny. Your notion of a humanity universally putting out the tongue and taking the pill from pole to pole at the bidding of a few solemn jokers is worthy of the prophet ...

Joseph Conrad

#3. Simone de Beauvoir believed adolescence is when girls realize that men have the power and that their only power comes from consenting to become submissive adored objects. They do not suffer from the penis envy Freud postulated, but from power envy.

Mary Pipher

#4. Oh please," Scout said."Don't take that tone with me. You know you'd love to have a minion. Someone at your beck and call. Someone to do your bidding. How many times have you said to yourself," Self, I need a unicorn to run errands and such?

Chloe Neill

#5. I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.

Oscar Wilde

#6. When I was fair and young, and favor graced me,
Of many was I sought, their mistress for to be;
But I did scorn them all, and answered them therefore,
Go, go, go seek some otherwhere!
Importune me no more!

Elizabeth I

#7. She was ashamed. She would not
she would not
be frightened of him: he was what he was, and he had made a promise he would keep.

Robin McKinley

#8. As you set off into the world, don't be afraid to question your leaders. But don't ask too many questions at one time or that are too hard because your leaders get tired and/or cranky.

Will Ferrell