> Every writer has received rejection
> slips; too many of them for most. The "Financial Times"
> has quoted the "mother of all rejection slips", translated
> from a Chinese economic journal. It goes like this:
>
> We have read your manuscript with boundless delight. If
> we were to publish your paper, it would be impossible for
> us to publish any work of lower standard. And as it is
> unthinkable that in the next thousand years we shall see
> its equal, we are, to our regret, compelled to return your
> divine composition, and to beg you a thousand times to
> overlook our short sight and timidity.

here's one from the other end of the spectrum:

I can almost see why you would waste your time by writing this, but I cannot even comprehend why you would waste mine, by sending it to me.