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. 98 quotes from Mark Twain

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid. 14 sayings from Hedy Lamarr

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. 57 more quotes from Will Rogers

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. 98 wisdom & wit from Mark Twain

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else. 57 sayings from Will Rogers

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. 98 more views from Mark Twain

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. 98 quotes from Mark Twain

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. 57 other views from Will Rogers

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time. 9 other thoughts from Charles M. Schulz

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do. 57 views from Will Rogers

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago. 57 thoughts from Will Rogers

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress. 57 thoughts from Will Rogers

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life. 22 quotes from Jimi Hendrix

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life. 22 thoughts from Jimi Hendrix

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. 74 more wisdom & wit from Winston Churchill

The superfluous, a very necessary thing. 78 views from Voltaire

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. 18 quotes from Margaret Mead

Funny is an attitude. 7 other thoughts from Flip Wilson

Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone. 7 other thoughts from Flip Wilson

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. 10 quotes from Frank Sinatra

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. 23 sayings from Walt Disney

I'm for whatever gets you through the night. 10 quotes from Frank Sinatra

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave. 8 more views from Quentin Crisp

My main point is to be funny if I can slip a message in there, fine. 7 sayings from Flip Wilson

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children. 68 other quotes from Samuel Butler

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long. 14 quotes from James Thurber

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I. 4 views from Oscar Levant

Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead. 7 other thoughts from Flip Wilson

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone? 14 thoughts from James Thurber

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often. 5 thoughts from Oliver Herford

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you. 7 wisdom & wit from Joey Adams

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. 14 quotes from William Arthur Ward

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. 21 quotes from George Burns

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. 24 other quotes from W. C. Fields

I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink. 5 views from Joe E. Lewis

I like children - fried. 24 more wisdom & wit from W. C. Fields

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it. 24 sayings from W. C. Fields

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday. 21 quotes from George Burns

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way. 24 wisdom & wit from Carl Sandburg

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything. 6 quotes from William Lyon Phelps

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. 7 more wisdom & wit from Tallulah Bankhead

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age. 21 quotes from George Burns

It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. 29 more wisdom & wit from W. Somerset Maugham

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing. 12 views from Zora Neale Hurston

One man's folly is another man's wife. 23 other quotes from Helen Rowland

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. 16 quotes from Isaac Asimov

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. 21 other quotes from George Burns

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' 16 quotes from Isaac Asimov

The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love. 5 other wisdom & wit from Joe E. Lewis

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick. 21 other quotes from George Burns

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. 96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat. 33 other quotes from Erma Bombeck

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. 6 wisdom & wit from Lana Turner

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions. 73 quotes from Victor Hugo

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving. 33 thoughts from Erma Bombeck

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either. 4 thoughts from Jack Benny

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. 31 quotes from Gertrude Stein

I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own. 3 sayings from Les Dawson

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier. 9 quotes from Howard Nemerov

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe. 2 other quotes from Jimmy Durante

Never have more children than you have car windows. 33 more wisdom & wit from Erma Bombeck

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere. 8 wisdom & wit from Dr. Seuss

If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving. 16 more quotes from Henny Youngman

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. 105 wisdom & wit from Albert Einstein

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late. 16 thoughts from Henny Youngman

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married. 50 other views from Robert Frost

My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not. 5 views from Anna Held

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did. 21 more wisdom & wit from Bette Davis

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. 42 thoughts from Josh Billings

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed. 42 quotes from Josh Billings

I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire. 2 quotes from Roy Orbison

I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair. 21 other quotes from Bette Davis

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory. 42 views from Josh Billings

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together. 42 thoughts from Josh Billings

A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny. 8 other views from Bobby Darin

California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange. 13 quotes from Fred Allen

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. 14 more quotes from Arthur Conan Doyle

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. 13 quotes from Fred Allen

I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there. 13 views from Fred Allen

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. 13 more quotes from Fred Allen

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends. 30 more thoughts from Walt Whitman

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. 45 more quotes from Bertrand Russell

The first time I sang in the church choir two hundred people changed their religion. 13 other views from Fred Allen

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. 45 quotes from Bertrand Russell

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. 59 wisdom & wit from Elbert Hubbard

I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church. 8 more views from Paul Lynde

I wish I had the nerve not to tip. 8 more quotes from Paul Lynde

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible. 11 sayings from David Ogilvy

TV is chewing gum for the eyes. 26 quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. 47 other views from George Orwell

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. 8 more sayings from Paul Lynde

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. 115 other quotes from George Bernard Shaw

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. 35 sayings from Ernest Hemingway

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. 18 more thoughts from Don Marquis

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height. 12 more sayings from Casey Stengel

Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime. 5 quotes from Red Skelton

Be obscure clearly. 19 quotes from E. B. White

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint. 18 thoughts from Don Marquis

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car. 19 sayings from E. B. White

I have never been hurt by what I have not said. 17 quotes from Calvin Coolidge

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate. 27 thoughts from Dave Barry

It's funny what a few no-hitters do for a body. 9 quotes from Satchel Paige

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. 115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. 18 sayings from Don Marquis

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl. 27 views from Dave Barry

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby. 4 more wisdom & wit from Natalie Wood

All men are equal before fish. 20 wisdom & wit from Herbert Hoover

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. 31 views from Mae West

Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying then without money? 14 thoughts from Ogden Nash

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead. 16 thoughts from Samuel Goldwyn

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. 31 other wisdom & wit from Mae West

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell? 18 other views from Andy Warhol

I'm not funny. What I am is brave. 11 quotes from Lucille Ball

It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean. 31 quotes from Mae West

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute. 22 sayings from William Feather

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs. 9 quotes from Alfred Hitchcock

You see much more of your children once they leave home. 11 thoughts from Lucille Ball

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know. 21 thoughts from Laurence J. Peter

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. 10 more views from Robert Benchley

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. 19 views from H. G. Wells

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well. 10 more sayings from Robert Benchley

If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry. 6 sayings from O. Henry

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three. 21 more wisdom & wit from Laurence J. Peter

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. 60 other wisdom & wit from H. L. Mencken

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution? 60 sayings from H. L. Mencken

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. 60 wisdom & wit from H. L. Mencken

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. 21 other wisdom & wit from Laurence J. Peter

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. 21 quotes from Laurence J. Peter

Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of. 10 views from Robert Benchley

Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini? 10 quotes from Robert Benchley

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. 4 thoughts from Alan Ladd

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. 29 more quotes from Groucho Marx

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats. 29 more sayings from Groucho Marx

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot. 29 sayings from Groucho Marx

Communism is like one big phone company. 5 thoughts from Lenny Bruce

For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents. 4 wisdom & wit from James Herriot

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member. 29 other sayings from Groucho Marx

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse. 24 quotes from Adlai E. Stevenson

Miami Beach is where neon goes to die. 5 views from Lenny Bruce

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf. 8 more thoughts from Lewis Mumford