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Dylan Moran Comedian
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"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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Chic Murray Comedian, Actor
Humor

"The boat was so old; it must have been launched when Long John Silver had two legs and an egg on his shoulder."

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Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer
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"How does gravity work? And if it were to cease suddenly, would certain restaurants still require a jacket?"

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Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer
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"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."

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"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."

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Fran Lebowitz Author, Essayist
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"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."

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Frank Carson Comedian
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"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.""

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Fred Allen Comedian, Actor
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"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."

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Martin Luther Theologian
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"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."

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