"Humor is when the joke's on you..." - Quote by Langston Hughes
Humor is when the joke's on you but hits the other fellow first -- before it boomerangs.
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“When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.”
“I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face.”
“Don't come giving me, who's old enough to die and too near blind to create anything any more anyhow, a great big banquet that you eat up in honor of your own stomachs as much as in honor of me- who's toothless and can't eat.”
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“You've got a way with words. You got me smiling even when it hurts. There's no way to measure what your love is worth, I can't believe the way you get through to me. ~ Shania Twain If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything”
“Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.”
“Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!”
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“I just tell people what they already know but are afraid to admit to themselves.”
“I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely was, the greatest nastiness precisely lay in my being shamefully conscious every moment, even in moments of the greatest bile, that I was not only not a wicked man but was not even an embittered man, that I was simply frightening sparrows in vain, and pleasing myself with it.”
“He could even think about how fast he was thinking about things.”