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 There's terrific merit in having no sense of humour, no sense of irony, practically no sense of anything at all. If you're born with these so-called defects you have a very good chance of getting to the top.
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Peter Cook |
[These quotes from a 2001 Washington TV/Radio Correspondents dinner]
As you know, we're studying safe levels for arsenic in drinking water to base our decision on sound science, the scientists told us we need to test the water glasses of about 3,000 people. Thank you for participating.
"Rarely is the question asked, is our children learning?" Let us analyze that sentence for a moment. If you're a stickler, you probably think the singular verb "is" should have been the plural "are," but if you read it closely, you'll see I'm using the intransitive plural subjunctive tense. So the word "is" are correct.
In my sentences I go where no man has gone before...I am a boon to the English language.
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George W. Bush |
Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
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Frank Moore Colby (The Colby Essays) |
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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Mel Brooks |
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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Erma Bombeck |
Good taste and humour...are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
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Malcolm Muggeridge |
What matters is not the length of the wand, but the magic in the stick.
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Anonymous |
A pun is the lowest form of humor -- when you don't think of it first.
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Oscar Levant |
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
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Will Rogers |
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