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"We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor."
Bobby Clarke
"We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor."
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"Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end."
Malcolm Lowry
"Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end."
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"Afternoons are hard. Mornings are pure evil from the pits of hell, which is why I don't do them anymore."
Rachel Caine
"Afternoons are hard. Mornings are pure evil from the pits of hell, which is why I don't do them anymore."
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"Oh hell no. Guys don't talk about that crap."You're serious."Really."What do you talk about?Shane looked at her as if she were insane. "You know. Stuff. We're not girls. We don't talk about our feelings. I mean, not to other guys.Claire rolled her eyes and said, "Fine, be emotionally stunted losers; I don't care."
Rachel Caine
"Oh hell no. Guys don't talk about that crap."You're serious."Really."What do you talk about?Shane looked at her as if she were insane. "You know. Stuff. We're not girls. We don't talk about our feelings. I mean, not to other guys.Claire rolled her eyes and said, "Fine, be emotionally stunted losers; I don't care."
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"A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself."
Jessamyn West
"A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself."
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"Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense."
Robert Frost
"Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense."
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"I think that people's sexual preferences are a legitimate subject for humour, dirty humour if at all possible."
Christopher Hitchens
"I think that people's sexual preferences are a legitimate subject for humour, dirty humour if at all possible."
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"I could get into bed with James Bond, then take my false leg off and it would really be a gun."
Heather Mills
"I could get into bed with James Bond, then take my false leg off and it would really be a gun."
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"What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading."
Alice James
"What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading."
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"Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor."
John Lithgow
"Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor."
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"Cadillacs are down at the end of the bat."
Ralph Kiner
"Cadillacs are down at the end of the bat."
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"Then the small man suddenly ran after them and said:"I want to get my haircut. I say, do you know a little shop anywhere where they cut hair properly? I keep on having my hair cut, but it keeps on growing again."One of the tall men looked at him with the air of a pained naturalist."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Then the small man suddenly ran after them and said:"I want to get my haircut. I say, do you know a little shop anywhere where they cut hair properly? I keep on having my hair cut, but it keeps on growing again."One of the tall men looked at him with the air of a pained naturalist."
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"God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board."
Mark Twain
"God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board."
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"A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man."
Catherine Deneuve
"A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man."
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"A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once."
William Faulkner
"A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once."
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"There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it."
Will Durst
"There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it."
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"It's colder than a witch's tit in a steel bra."
David Levithan
"It's colder than a witch's tit in a steel bra."
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"There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots."
George Eliot
"There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots."
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"If you're listening to this, congratulations! You survived Doomsday.I'd like to apologize straightaway for any inconvenience the end of the world may have caused you. The earthquakes, rebellions, riots,tornadoes, floods, tsunamis, and of course the giant snake who swallowed the sun-I'm afraid most of that was our fault. Carter and I decided we should at least explain how it happened."
Rick Riordan
"If you're listening to this, congratulations! You survived Doomsday.I'd like to apologize straightaway for any inconvenience the end of the world may have caused you. The earthquakes, rebellions, riots,tornadoes, floods, tsunamis, and of course the giant snake who swallowed the sun-I'm afraid most of that was our fault. Carter and I decided we should at least explain how it happened."
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"Perv."He pointed to himself. "Male and eighteen. What's your point?"
Rachel Caine
"Perv."He pointed to himself. "Male and eighteen. What's your point?"
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"Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq."
Fran Lebowitz
"Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq."
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"To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady."
Albert Camus
"To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady."
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"The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day."
Adlai E. Stevenson
"The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day."
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"Home, I think. But it's nowhere I can go back to."
Margaret Atwood
"Home, I think. But it's nowhere I can go back to."
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"She's not pushing forty she's dragging it."
Anonymous
"She's not pushing forty she's dragging it."
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"Home is where the heart is, home is where the fart is.Come let us fart in the home.There is no art in a fart.Still a fart may not be artless.Let us fart and artless fart in the home."
Ernest Hemingway
"Home is where the heart is, home is where the fart is.Come let us fart in the home.There is no art in a fart.Still a fart may not be artless.Let us fart and artless fart in the home."
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"Definition of a bridegroom: A man who is amazed at the outcome of what he thought was a harmless little flirtation."
Anonymous
"Definition of a bridegroom: A man who is amazed at the outcome of what he thought was a harmless little flirtation."
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"What dire offence from am'rous causes springs. What mighty contests rise from trivial things."
Alexander Pope
"What dire offence from am'rous causes springs. What mighty contests rise from trivial things."
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"Much was said, and much was ate, and all went well."
Jane Austen
"Much was said, and much was ate, and all went well."
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"The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one."
Charles Tupper
"The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one."
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"A good motto in life, he'd reckoned, was: don't eat anything that glows."
Terry Pratchett
"A good motto in life, he'd reckoned, was: don't eat anything that glows."
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"It was a fine summer morning, the kind to make a man happy to be alive. And probably the man *would* have been happier to be alive. He was, in fact, dead. It would be hard to be deader without special training."
Terry Pratchett
"It was a fine summer morning, the kind to make a man happy to be alive. And probably the man *would* have been happier to be alive. He was, in fact, dead. It would be hard to be deader without special training."
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"When asked how long I've worked here I replied "since the day they threatened to fire me.""
Anonymous
"When asked how long I've worked here I replied "since the day they threatened to fire me.""
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"I have never tried to walk through a mall in the Christmas season dressed like a jolly old elf. You might as well dress up like a pork chop and walk into an alley full of starving dogs."
Thomm Quackenbush
"I have never tried to walk through a mall in the Christmas season dressed like a jolly old elf. You might as well dress up like a pork chop and walk into an alley full of starving dogs."
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"It's always worrying to see a journalist take a sudden interest in what you're saying, especially when you half suspect it was a load of pigeon guano."
Terry Pratchett
"It's always worrying to see a journalist take a sudden interest in what you're saying, especially when you half suspect it was a load of pigeon guano."
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"Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know."
Emmett Kelly
"Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know."
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"Some people talk about finding God as if He could get lost."
Anonymous
"Some people talk about finding God as if He could get lost."
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"A banker is a man who lends you an umbrella when the weather is fair and takes it away from you when it rains."
Anonymous
"A banker is a man who lends you an umbrella when the weather is fair and takes it away from you when it rains."
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"The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst."
Winston Churchill
"The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst."
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"The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth."
James Thurber
"The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth."
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"And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit."
Bobby Knight
"And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit."
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"Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor."
Terrence Howard
"Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor."
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"Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter."
Anonymous
"Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter."
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"I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately."
Mark Twain
"I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately."
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"But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret."
Ronald Reagan
"But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret."
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"Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."
Mark Twain
"Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."
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"Everybody trusts a guy in a raincoat. I don't know why. It's just one of those mystery facts."
Stephen King
"Everybody trusts a guy in a raincoat. I don't know why. It's just one of those mystery facts."
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"It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in."
Kenneth Koch
"It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in."
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"His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it."
William Shakespeare
"His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it."
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"I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire."
David Zucker
"I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire."
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