Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

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All generalizations are false, including this one.

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

Funny is an attitude.

Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

I'm for whatever gets you through the night.

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

My main point is to be funny if I can slip a message in there, fine.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.

I like children - fried.

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love.

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.

Never have more children than you have car windows.

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not.

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.

I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.

California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

The first time I sang in the church choir two hundred people changed their religion.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.

I wish I had the nerve not to tip.

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

I don't know who the hell Paul Lynde is, or why he's funny, and I prefer it to be a mystery to me.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.

Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.

Be obscure clearly.

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.

It's funny what a few no-hitters do for a body.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

All men are equal before fish.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying then without money?

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

I'm not funny. What I am is brave.

It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.

Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?

It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Communism is like one big phone company.

For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.