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Category: humor

Posted on March 28, 2022

“Let’s face it, when an attractive but aloof man comes along, there are some of us who offer to shine his shoes with our underpants.”—Lynda Barry, American cartoonist, 1956-

Posted on February 27, 2022February 27, 2022

“It ain’t over till it’s over.”—Lawrence Peter (“Yogi”) Berra, American baseball catcher, 1925-2015

Posted on February 25, 2022February 25, 2022

“Back of every achievement is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.”—Brooks Hays, politician from Arkansas, 1898-1981

Posted on February 10, 2022

“If I die, I forgive you. If I recover, we will see.”—Spanish proverb

Posted on February 7, 2022

“I was looking down at all that machinery and equipment and rockets and things under me, and I thought, ‘Just think—all that power was assembled by the lowest bidder.'”—Wally Schirra, American astronaut, 1923-2007

Posted on February 2, 2022February 2, 2022

“One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.”—J.B. Priestley, English novelist, 1894-1984

Posted on January 29, 2022January 29, 2022

“Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.”—Stephen Leacock, Canadian humorist, 1869-1944

Posted on January 17, 2022January 17, 2022

“If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.”—Albert Einstein, German-born American theoretical physicist, 1879-1955

Posted on January 8, 2022

“The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult.”—Marie de Deffand, French marquise, 1696-1780 (This was her remark on St. Denis’s miraculous walk of two miles with his head in his hands.)

Posted on December 26, 2021December 26, 2021

“To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.”—Gustave Flaubert, French novelist, 1821-1880

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