"I tended to place my wife under a pedestal."
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"When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep."
"I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it."
"Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused."
"Total absence of humor renders life impossible."
"People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House."
"I like my wine like my women - ready to pass out."
"A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair."
"The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread."
"The speed of time is one second per second."
"Why are they called a-part-ments, when they're all stuck together?"
"If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before."
"Whatever happened to preparations A through G?"
"You know how it is when you’re walking up the stairs, and you get to the top, and you think there’s one more step? I’m like that all the time."
"The lady across the hall tried to rob a department store . . . with a pricing gun. She said, "Give me all of the money in the vault, or I'm marking down everything in the store.""
"Do fish get cramps after eating?"
"Why do they sterilize needles for lethal injections?"
"I was in the first submarine. Instead of a periscope, they had a kaleidoscope. "We're surrounded.""
"When I erase a word with a pencil, where does it go?"
"Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't zigzag?"