"I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate."
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"Sexual intercourse is kicking death in the ass while singing."
"I like friends as I like music - when I am in the mood."
"The boat was so old; it must have been launched when Long John Silver had two legs and an egg on his shoulder."
"How does gravity work? And if it were to cease suddenly, would certain restaurants still require a jacket?"
"It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more."
"In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue."
"Isn't Disney World a people trap operated by a mouse?"
"The severity of the itch is proportional to the reach."
"I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving."
"Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk."
"America is a bunch o' bullies. Tell me what the Iraq uniform is like. Don't worry, I'll wait."
"A man goes into Boots and says: "Have you got any Viagra?" "Do you have a prescription?" asks the chemist. "No," he replies, "But 'I've got a photograph of the wife.""
"I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin."
"Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure."
"The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember."
"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right."
"If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there."
"What shall we do with...the Jews?...set fire to their synagogues or schools and bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them."
"Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt...people."