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- Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
- Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
- No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
- I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
- Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
- Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
- Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
- A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
- I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
- Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.
- John Gunther (1901 - 1970)
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