Spreuken over Humor

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Autoritaire mensen verraden zich altijd door een gebrek aan humor.

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Wie slechts geloof heeft, loopt gevaar een kwezel te worden. Wie slechts humor heeft, dreigt cynisch te worden. Wie geloof én humor heeft, vindt het evenwicht waarmee hij in het leven rechtop kan blijven.

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Wie geluk wil oogsten, moet humor zaaien.

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Bij nat weer is er niets ergers dan een voetpad met gevoel voor humor.

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Wie humor heeft, laat zich niet zo snel iets wijsmaken want humor is een controleorgaan. Wie humor heeft, heeft twijfels, ook over zichzelf.

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Humor is een soort tekenaar, die de zaken zo danig vergroot dat het lachspiegels worden.

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De humor draagt de ziel over de afgronden heen en leert ze met haar eigen leed spelen.

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Humor is slechts een komische manier om serieus te zijn.

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Het is het prikkelen van het denkvermogen dat humor teweegbrengt.

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Humor is drama dat op zijn hoofd staat met een gescheurde broek.

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Geestigheid wordt geboren uit het verstand, humor bovenal uit het hart.

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Humor is emotionele chaos die je je in stilte herinnert.

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Het geheim van humor is verrassing.

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Humor: de goede schuilkelder als je botst met het leven.

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Humor geeft geen oplossing voor een vraag. De vraag zelf lost in de humor op.

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Humor is een prachtige waterlelie die wortelt in het troebele water van verdriet.

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De beste humor is die, welke je vijf seconden doet lachen en tien minuten nadenken.

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Gevoel voor humor is gewoon gezond verstand dat danst.

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In Nederland is humor een medikament. In Vlaanderen een ingrediënt.

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Humor is gecultiveerde onbeschaamdheid.

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Humor is de beleefdheid van de wanhoop.

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Humor is droevige gedachten een plezierige uitvaart bezorgen.

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Je hebt nooit meer zin voor humor nodig dan wanneer je twist met een gek.

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De humorist is iemand bij wie de vrolijkheid geweken is uit zijn hart om te gaan zetelen in zijn hersenen.

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Humor is een bescherming tegen het universum.

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De ernst moet zich hullen in een kleed van scherts en humor wil hij toegelaten worden in het gezelschapsleven.

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Humor is een deur naar de eeuwigheid.

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Men heeft weinig aan een gevoel voor humor wanneer men het niet verder brengt dan tot humorist.

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Humor: de kunst om de 3 zijden van de medaille te zien.

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Een beslissende proef om te zien of een mens over zin voor humor beschikt, bestaat erin na te gaan of hij al dan niet boos wordt als men hem gebrek aan humor verwijt.

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Humor en geduld zijn kamelen waarmee je door elke woestijn kunt trekken.

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Humor is de zwemgordel op de rivier van het leven.

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Humor is voltooid verleden pijn.

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Humor is de grens passeren.

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Het is gemakkelijk om met zichzelf te lachen in kleine dingen, wanneer men zichzelf bewondert in grote. Vandaar de volmaakte humor der Engelsen.

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Humor: de glimlach van iemand die weet hoe weinig er te lachen is.

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Humor is de eigenschap die ons helpt onthouden dat we, hoe hoog ook de troon is waarop we gezeten zijn, op onze billen zitten.

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Humor is in de spiegel kijken om zichzelf niet te zien.

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Humor proberen te definiëren is een van de definities van humor.

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Humor is vluchten terwijl je thuis blijft.

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In de tuin van het leven is humor de beste mest.

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Indien ik geen gevoel voor humor had, dan zou ik al lang geleden zelfmoord gepleegd hebben.

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Met een goed gevoel voor humor, lach je ook om je eigen gedachten.

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De lach is de geigerteller van de humor.

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Het leven moet met liefde en humor worden geleefd: liefde om het te begrijpen en humor om het te dragen.

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Optimisme is slecht voor humor.

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De beste manier om een probleem op te lossen, is de humor ervan te ontdekken.

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Een komische situatie veronderstelt altijd een toestand van veiligheid bij de toeschouwer.

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Zodra het drama de humor ontmoet, ontstaat zoiets als troost.

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De verbeeldingskracht troost ons over hetgeen we niet zijn. Het gevoel voor humor over hetgeen we zijn.

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Verbeelding is ons gegeven voor wat we niet zijn. Zin voor humor om ons te troosten voor wat we wel zijn.

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Met humor kan men de vrouwen het gemakkelijkst verleiden want de meeste vrouwen lachen graag voordat ze beginnen te kussen.

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Als ik man was, zou ik mezelf voortdurend uitlachen. Maar daar hebben de mannen veel te weinig zin voor humor voor.

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Humor is het immuunsysteem van de geest.

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Humoe en goed humeur zijn eeneiïge tweelingszusjes.

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Vrouwen moeten wel gevoel voor humor hebben, kijk maar naar de mannen met wie ze getrouwd zijn.

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Het grote zien in het kleine en het kleine in het grote, is dat niet het geheim van humor?

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Humor is een orchidee op een mestvaalt..

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

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

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

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A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.

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A lot of baby boomers are baby bongers.

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A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, "At my age, I don't even buy green bananas."

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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.

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A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.

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A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

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All men are equal before fish.

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

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Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

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

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

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As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

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As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

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Be obscure clearly.

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Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.

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Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

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

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

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

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

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Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

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Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.

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Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.

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

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Electricity is really just organized lightning.

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Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.

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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

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Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.

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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

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Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

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Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.

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

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

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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

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

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Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.

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He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house.

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Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?

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How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.

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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.

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I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

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I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries.

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I bought some batteries, but they weren't included.

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I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

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I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.

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

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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

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

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I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

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

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I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

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

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I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.

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I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

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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.

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I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.

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

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

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I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.

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

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I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.

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I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

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I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

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I like children - fried.

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

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I like marriage. The idea.

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I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.

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

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

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

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I never said most of the things I said.

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I rant, therefore I am.

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I recorded my hair this morning, tonight I'm watching the highlights.

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

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

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I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.

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I think serial monogamy says it all.

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I think they should have a Barbie with a buzz cut.

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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

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I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.

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

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I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry.

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I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.

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I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

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I washed a sock. Then I put it in the dryer. When I took it out, it was gone.

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I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I'm upside down.

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I wish I had the nerve not to tip.

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

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I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

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

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I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.

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

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I'm kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more.

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

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I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.

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I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something's wrong with me.

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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

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If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

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

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In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.

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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

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It all started when my dog began getting free roll over minutes.

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

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It is easy for me to love myself, but for ladies to do it is another question altogether.

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

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Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.

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Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

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Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

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My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.

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My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.

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My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.

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My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

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My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.

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My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.

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My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?

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Never fight an inanimate object.

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Never floss with a stranger.

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Never have more children than you have car windows.

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Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.

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

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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

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Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.

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

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One picture is worth 1,000 denials.

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

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Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

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

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Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.

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People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.

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Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

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Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

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

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Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

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

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That's my only goal. Surround myself with funny people, and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard.

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The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

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

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

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The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.

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The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

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

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There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.

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There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

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

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There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.

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There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it.

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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

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TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

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A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

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A joke is a very serious thing.

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A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.

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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

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A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.

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A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

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A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

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A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

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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.

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A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

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Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

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All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

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Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

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Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

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Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

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Gags die, humor doesn't.

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Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

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Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

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Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.

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Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.

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Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.

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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

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Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

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Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

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Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

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Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

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Humor is reason gone mad.

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Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.

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Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

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Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

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I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

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I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.

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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

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If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.

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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

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In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

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My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.

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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.

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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

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Puns are a form of humor with words.

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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

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The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.

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The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

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The secret to humor is surprise.

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There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

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There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

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This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

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What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.

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I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

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There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.

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Let the little fairy in you fly!

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The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.

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I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's War and Peace everyday.

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The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.

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This is it, folks. This is the idea which has kept me virtually unknown for the past 16 years. I have watched my crowds dwindle. I am going nowhere, and nowhere quick, but, those of you who have children, I am sorry to tell you this, but they are not special. Wait! I know some of you are going "what, what?" Let me just clarify: I know YOU think they're special ... ha ha ha! I'm aware of that. I'm just here to tell you, that they're NOT! Ha ha ha ha! Sorry. Did you know that every time a guy comes he comes two-hundred million sperm? One out of TWO-HUNDRED MILLION that load, we're only talking about one load connected: gee, what are the fucking odds? Do you know what that means? I've wiped nations off've my chest with a grey gymsock. ENTIRE CIVILISATIONS HAVE FLAKED AND CRUSTED IN THE HAIR AROUND MY NAVEL! [...] I've tossed universes in my underpants while napping. Boom! A Milkyway shoots into my jockeyshorts: "Unngh ... what's for fucking breakfast?!"

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Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.

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