When insults had class...

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
Winston Churchill

"A modest little person, with much to be modest about."
Winston Churchill

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
Clarence Darrow

"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)

"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?"
Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it."
Moses Hadas

"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."
Abraham Lincoln

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."
Groucho Marx

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
Mark Twain

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
Oscar Wilde

"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play, bring a friend... if you have one."
George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill

"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one."
Winston Churchill, in response

"I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here."
Stephen Bishop

"He is a self-made man and worships his creator."
John Bright

"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
Irvin S. Cobb

"He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others."
Samuel Johnson

"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."
Paul Keating

"He had delusions of adequacy."
Walter Kerr

"There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure."
Jack E. Leonard

"He has the attention span of a lightning bolt."
Robert Redford

"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge."
Thomas Brackett Reed

"He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them."
James Reston (about Richard Nixon)

"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily."
Charles, Count Talleyrand

"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."
Forrest Tucker

"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?"
Mark Twain

"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."
Mae West

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
Oscar Wilde

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination."
Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

"He has Van Gogh's ear for music."
Billy Wilder

I gave it my best shot today. I tried to install the sink, but ran into multiple problems. First the drain pipe in the wall is not in the center of the opening where the sink is to be centered. This poses a lot of alignment issues when installing the sink drain and p-trap. But I finally figured out an arrangement using two pieces of flexible piping. But then I discovered that the sink drain itself was leaking (I had the water back on by then...) and I had to dismount the sink (this is a pedestal sink that is BOLTED to the wall.) Then I had to disassemble the sink drain, remove the plumber's putty that I always use to seal the drain pipe to the sink. The putty must have squeezed out and opened some holes. I then used a large bead of silicone seal and reinstalled the drain. Now it had to sit overnight while the silicone cures. I also added a bead of silicone to the outer seal where the drain pipe is threaded against the bottom of the sink. This seals off the overflow (you know the hole in the sink that the water goes down if you forget and leave the water running too long?)
Anyway, everything is on hold for now while the silicone cures overnight, then tomorrow night I'll get the sink put in, and the toilet too. We're almost finished. The bathroom door is ready to install, but I've been waiting for the paint to dry on the door casing. I got all of the electrical work done this morning. Nice new rocker switches and a GFI outlet. Why didn't the inspector flag a non-GFI outlet next to the bathroom sink when we bought this place? Oh well, it's safe now.
More tomorrow and pictures too! It's looking mighty classy in there already!