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- The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961), in Edward R. Murrow television interview
- Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
- The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
- Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
- Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
- In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940), "The Crack-Up" (1936)
- Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
- Heywood Broun (1888 - 1939)
- When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.
- Bob Edwards
- A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
- Joseph Roux
- Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
- Sir Richard Steele
- The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.
- Amanda Cross (1926 - )
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