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"George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead."
Jesse Jackson
"George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead."
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"It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal."
Edgar Rice Burroughs
"It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal."
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"But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me."
Marion Ross
"But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me."
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"I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't want to be a part of a show where it's mostly about coming up with the jokes."
Sherilyn Fenn
"I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't want to be a part of a show where it's mostly about coming up with the jokes."
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"I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep."
Evelyn Waugh
"I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep."
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"Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever."
Charles Lamb
"Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever."
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"When humor goes, there goes civilization."
Erma Bombeck
"When humor goes, there goes civilization."
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"There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble."
Sinclair Lewis
"There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble."
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"If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain."
William Howard Taft
"If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain."
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"I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win."
Eric Cantona
"I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win."
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"Oh, God, if I'm anything by a clinical name, I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I think people are plotting to make me happy."
"Oh, God, if I'm anything by a clinical name, I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I think people are plotting to make me happy."
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"Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat."
Fran Lebowitz
"Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat."
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"Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God."
Adam Smith
"Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God."
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"The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so."
Gore Vidal
"The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so."
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"Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird."
Elsa Maxwell
"Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird."
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"Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down."
Robert Frost
"Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down."
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"This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise."
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
"This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise."
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"Been eating candies, have you?""You sent those?" She kept her mouth closed as much as possible."Of course." He picked up the brown bad of candy on the table. "What's your..." He trailed off as he weighed the bad in his hands. "Didn't I give you three pounds of candy?"She smiled impishly."You ate half the bag!""Was I supposed to save it?""I would have liked some!""You never told me that.""Because I didn't expect you to consume all of it before breakfast!"She snatched the bag from him and put it on the table. "Well, that just hows poor judgement on your part, doesn't it?"
Sarah J. Maas
"Been eating candies, have you?""You sent those?" She kept her mouth closed as much as possible."Of course." He picked up the brown bad of candy on the table. "What's your..." He trailed off as he weighed the bad in his hands. "Didn't I give you three pounds of candy?"She smiled impishly."You ate half the bag!""Was I supposed to save it?""I would have liked some!""You never told me that.""Because I didn't expect you to consume all of it before breakfast!"She snatched the bag from him and put it on the table. "Well, that just hows poor judgement on your part, doesn't it?"
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"When you walk into a chocolate store, suddenly the most difficult decision you will ever have to make in your life, is which chocolates to pick! It is pure torture! Especially when you are in Belgium surrounded by Belgian chocolates!"
C. JoyBell C.
"When you walk into a chocolate store, suddenly the most difficult decision you will ever have to make in your life, is which chocolates to pick! It is pure torture! Especially when you are in Belgium surrounded by Belgian chocolates!"
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"This is Waldo Butters, and his geek penis is longer and harder than any of ours put together."
Jim Butcher
"This is Waldo Butters, and his geek penis is longer and harder than any of ours put together."
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"A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself."
Doug Larson
"A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself."
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"Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk."
Henry David Thoreau
"Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk."
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"A ghostly smile flickered across his face. "If you weren't so psychotic, you'd be fun to hang around." "Funny, I feel that way about you too." He didn't say anything else, but the smile grew, and he walked away."
Richelle Mead
"A ghostly smile flickered across his face. "If you weren't so psychotic, you'd be fun to hang around." "Funny, I feel that way about you too." He didn't say anything else, but the smile grew, and he walked away."
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"Wayne: You wanna know why I really came to find you?Waxilliam: Why?Wayne: I thought of you happy in a comfy bed, resting and relaxing, spending the rest of your life sipping tea and reading papers while people bring you food and maids rub your toes and stuff.Waxilliam: And?Wayne: And I just couldn't leave you to a fate like that...I'm too good a friend to let a mate of mine die in such a terrible situation.Waxilliam: Comfortable?Wayne: No. Boring."
Brandon Sanderson
"Wayne: You wanna know why I really came to find you?Waxilliam: Why?Wayne: I thought of you happy in a comfy bed, resting and relaxing, spending the rest of your life sipping tea and reading papers while people bring you food and maids rub your toes and stuff.Waxilliam: And?Wayne: And I just couldn't leave you to a fate like that...I'm too good a friend to let a mate of mine die in such a terrible situation.Waxilliam: Comfortable?Wayne: No. Boring."
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"They say hard work never hurt anybody but I figure why take the chance."
Ronald Reagan
"They say hard work never hurt anybody but I figure why take the chance."
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"The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood."
Lou Holtz
"The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood."
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"Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives."
Veronica Roth
"Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives."
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"Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time."
Hattie McDaniel
"Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time."
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"I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?"
Fran Lebowitz
"I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?"
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"The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people."
Dan Castellaneta
"The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people."
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"Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he's been in so long that it just doesn't matter, and he's not running for president. But it's just that people are so sensitive and so touchy, and you're just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it."
Mark Russell
"Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he's been in so long that it just doesn't matter, and he's not running for president. But it's just that people are so sensitive and so touchy, and you're just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it."
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"It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them."
Edward de Bono
"It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them."
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"Humor is reason gone mad."
Groucho Marx
"Humor is reason gone mad."
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"I'm not for gratuitous nudity, but if there's humor, I don't have a problem."
Rebecca Romijn
"I'm not for gratuitous nudity, but if there's humor, I don't have a problem."
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"Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep."
Fran Lebowitz
"Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep."
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"Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin."
Ned Rorem
"Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin."
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"In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose."
J. Robert Oppenheimer
"In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose."
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"A living skeleton isn't enough for you, is it? What does it take to impress young people these days?"
Derek Landy
"A living skeleton isn't enough for you, is it? What does it take to impress young people these days?"
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"He who sells what isn't his'n, Must buy it back or go to prison."
Daniel Drew
"He who sells what isn't his'n, Must buy it back or go to prison."
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"Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties."
Barbara Walters
"Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties."
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"Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility."
James Thurber
"Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility."
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"I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still."
Calvin Trillin
"I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still."
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"The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense."
Jacob August Riis
"The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense."
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"Don't you even think of holding back, or I'll...I'll tell Spade you let me get away from you,' she improvised.'And that I got mugged,' she added for good measure.Cries of 'Mon Dieu!' and 'That's not fair!' echoed immediately from the two vampires.'I'm a crazy human female, you know I'll do it,' Denise warned them."
Jeaniene Frost
"Don't you even think of holding back, or I'll...I'll tell Spade you let me get away from you,' she improvised.'And that I got mugged,' she added for good measure.Cries of 'Mon Dieu!' and 'That's not fair!' echoed immediately from the two vampires.'I'm a crazy human female, you know I'll do it,' Denise warned them."
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"Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock."
Pablo Picasso
"Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock."
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"Even AWESOME MOMS use the F-BOMB!"
Tanya Masse
"Even AWESOME MOMS use the F-BOMB!"
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"I mean, yeah, I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I don't think it's all that different than the American sense of humor."
Simon Pegg
"I mean, yeah, I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I don't think it's all that different than the American sense of humor."
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"HELENA. What a fine day! Not too hot. [A pause.]VOITSKI. A fine day to hang oneself."
Anton Chekhov
"HELENA. What a fine day! Not too hot. [A pause.]VOITSKI. A fine day to hang oneself."
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"No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting."
Ronald Reagan
"No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting."
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"I swear, talking to you is like talking to a really good-looking and mildly stupid brick wall."
Derek Landy
"I swear, talking to you is like talking to a really good-looking and mildly stupid brick wall."
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