Quotes of Quip - somelinesforyou

“ Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law? ”

- Dick Clark

“ What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce. ”

- Evan Esar

“ The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail; The body should always be little and sweet, And a sting should be felt in its tail. ”

- Edward Young

“ What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ And I liked pluralist Australia. I got a taste for pluralist Australia. I like, I like Australians and I can't believe that they're going to go to hell because they tell a good dirty joke, you know. ”

- Thomas Keneally

“ Don't make jokes about food. ”

- David Lean

“ To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given. ”

- John Updike

“ A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow. ”

- Ovid

“ Housekeeping ain't no joke. ”

- Louisa May Alcott

“ Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. ”

- Max Beerbohm

“ Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Brevity is the soul of lingerie. ”

- Dorothy Parker

“ Fatigue is the best pillow. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ A thick skin is a gift from God. ”

- Konrad Adenauer

“ Even the gods love jokes. ”

- Plato

“ A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling. ”

- Unknown

“ Some people approach every problem with an open mouth. ”

- Adlai E. Stevenson

“ Some people approach every problem with an open mouth. ”

- Adlai Stevenson

“ His shortcoming is his long staying. ”

- Lewis L. Lewisohn

“ In the end, everything is a gag. ”

- Charlie Chaplin

“ We are the people our parents warned us about. ”

- Graffiti

“ A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. ”

- Samuel Goldwyn

“ I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra. ”

- George S. Kaufman

“ Angels fly because they take themselves lightly. ”

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“ Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams. ”

- W. Somerset Maugham

“ Evil spelled backward is live. ”

- Unknown

“ Evil spelled backward is live. ”

- Unknown
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