Groucho Marx
Actor, Comedian, Writer
"If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you."
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Otto von Bismarck
Statesman, Chancellor
"Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made."
Woody Allen
Director, Actor, Writer
"It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies."
Stephen King
Author
"People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk."
Fred Allen
Comedian, Actor
"What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement."
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"Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect."
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"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
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"Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable."
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"If you love someone set them free. If they come back, set them on fire."
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"Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid."
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"Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
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"The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name."
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"The 100% American is 99% idiot."
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"Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit."
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"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
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"A good listener is usually thinking about something else."
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"Electricity is really just organized lightning."
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"Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin."
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"Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery."
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"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."
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"Better never than late."
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"Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded."
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"A narcissist is someone better looking than you are."
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"Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about."
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"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
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