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Funny Quotes
[
{
"author":"Abraham Lincoln",
"quote":"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar."
},
{
"author":"Albert Einstein",
"quote":"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."
},
{
"author":"Alexander Woollcott",
"quote":"Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening."
},
{
"author":"Alfred Hitchcock",
"quote":"Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs."
},
{
"author":"Alice Roosevelt Longworth",
"quote":"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me."
},
{
"author":"Anthony Burgess",
"quote":"Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone."
},
{
"author":"Arthur C. Clarke",
"quote":"The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale."
},
{
"author":"Benjamin Franklin",
"quote":"Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy."
},
{
"author":"Bill Copeland",
"quote":"After all is said and done, sit down."
},
{
"author":"Bill Moyers",
"quote":"I own and operate a ferocious ego."
},
{
"author":"Bill Vaughan",
"quote":"The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them."
},
{
"author":"Bill Watterson",
"quote":"Reality continues to ruin my life."
},
{
"author":"Billy Connolly",
"quote":"My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger."
},
{
"author":"Buddy Hackett",
"quote":"As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it."
},
{
"author":"Casey Stengel",
"quote":"All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height."
},
{
"author":"Clint Eastwood",
"quote":"They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning."
},
{
"author":"Dave Barry",
"quote":"The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl."
},
{
"author":"Don Marquis",
"quote":"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."
},
{
"author":"Don Marquis",
"quote":"An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it."
},
{
"author":"Douglas Adams",
"quote":"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
},
{
"author":"E. B. White",
"quote":"Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts."
},
{
"author":"Elayne Boosler",
"quote":"I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three."
},
{
"author":"Elbert Hubbard",
"quote":"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."
},
{
"author":"Eldridge Cleaver",
"quote":"Too much agreement kills a chat."
},
{
"author":"Ellen DeGeneres",
"quote":"People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant."
},
{
"author":"Ellen DeGeneres",
"quote":"My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is."
},
{
"author":"Elon Musk",
"quote":"I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact."
},
{
"author":"Emo Philips",
"quote":"I was the kid next door's imaginary friend."
},
{
"author":"Erma Bombeck",
"quote":"Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving."
},
{
"author":"Fran Lebowitz",
"quote":"Food is an important part of a balanced diet."
},
{
"author":"Frank Sinatra",
"quote":"I'm for whatever gets you through the night."
},
{
"author":"Franklin P. Jones",
"quote":"One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening."
},
{
"author":"George Bernard Shaw",
"quote":"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."
},
{
"author":"George Burns",
"quote":"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."
},
{
"author":"George Carlin",
"quote":"Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck."
},
{
"author":"Groucho Marx",
"quote":"A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five."
},
{
"author":"Hedy Lamarr",
"quote":"Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid."
},
{
"author":"Henny Youngman",
"quote":"If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late."
},
{
"author":"Henry A. Kissinger",
"quote":"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full."
},
{
"author":"Herb Caen",
"quote":"I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met."
},
{
"author":"Hillary Clinton",
"quote":"If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle."
},
{
"author":"Isaac Asimov",
"quote":"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
},
{
"author":"Jane Wagner",
"quote":"All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific."
},
{
"author":"Jane Wagner",
"quote":"When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic."
},
{
"author":"Jerry Seinfeld",
"quote":"It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper."
},
{
"author":"Jim Carrey",
"quote":"Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes."
},
{
"author":"Joan Rivers",
"quote":"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio."
},
{
"author":"Joey Adams",
"quote":"Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you."
},
{
"author":"Josh Billings",
"quote":"There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together."
},
{
"author":"Josh Billings",
"quote":"Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed."
},
{
"author":"Katharine Hepburn",
"quote":"Life is hard. After all, it kills you."
},
{
"author":"Lana Turner",
"quote":"A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man."
},
{
"author":"Laurence J. Peter",
"quote":"If two wrongs don't make a right, try three."
},
{
"author":"Laurence J. Peter",
"quote":"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."
},
{
"author":"Laurence J. Peter",
"quote":"If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?"
},
{
"author":"Lenny Bruce",
"quote":"Miami Beach is where neon goes to die."
},
{
"author":"Lily Tomlin",
"quote":"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."
},
{
"author":"Luis Bunuel",
"quote":"Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese."
},
{
"author":"Mae West",
"quote":"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before."
},
{
"author":"Margaret Mead",
"quote":"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."
},
{
"author":"Mark Twain",
"quote":"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please."
},
{
"author":"Mark Twain",
"quote":"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."
},
{
"author":"Mark Twain",
"quote":"All generalizations are false, including this one."
},
{
"author":"Mel Brooks",
"quote":"If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets."
},
{
"author":"Milton Berle",
"quote":"A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours."
},
{
"author":"Milton Berle",
"quote":"We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight."
},
{
"author":"Mitch Hedberg",
"quote":"My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them."
},
{
"author":"Oliver Herford",
"quote":"A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often."
},
{
"author":"Oscar Levant",
"quote":"Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I."
},
{
"author":"Oscar Wilde",
"quote":"I can resist everything except temptation."
},
{
"author":"P. J. O'Rourke",
"quote":"Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely."
},
{
"author":"Paul Simon",
"quote":"I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one."
},
{
"author":"Phyllis Diller",
"quote":"The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron."
},
{
"author":"Red Skelton",
"quote":"Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime."
},
{
"author":"Richard Dawkins",
"quote":"By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out."
},
{
"author":"Robert Benchley",
"quote":"Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing."
},
{
"author":"Robert Byrne",
"quote":"Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell."
},
{
"author":"Robin Williams",
"quote":"I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you."
},
{
"author":"Robin Williams",
"quote":"Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?"
},
{
"author":"Rodney Dangerfield",
"quote":"I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her."
},
{
"author":"Rodney Dangerfield",
"quote":"I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people."
},
{
"author":"Rodney Dangerfield",
"quote":"I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap."
},
{
"author":"Ron White",
"quote":"I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party."
},
{
"author":"Samuel Johnson",
"quote":"One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts."
},
{
"author":"Spike Milligan",
"quote":"A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree."
},
{
"author":"Steve Martin",
"quote":"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
},
{
"author":"Steve Martin",
"quote":"Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!"
},
{
"author":"Terry Pratchett",
"quote":"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
},
{
"author":"Theodore Roosevelt",
"quote":"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month."
},
{
"author":"Thomas A. Edison",
"quote":"The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around."
},
{
"author":"Thomas Sowell",
"quote":"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance."
},
{
"author":"Thor Heyerdahl",
"quote":"Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity."
},
{
"author":"W. H. Auden",
"quote":"We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know."
},
{
"author":"Walt Disney",
"quote":"I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known."
},
{
"author":"Will Rogers",
"quote":"Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for."
},
{
"author":"William Feather",
"quote":"If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like."
},
{
"author":"Wilson Mizner",
"quote":"Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something."
},
{
"author":"Winston Churchill",
"quote":"I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly."
},
{
"author":"Woody Allen",
"quote":"I failed to make the chess team because of my height."
},
{
"author":"Yogi Berra",
"quote":"I never said most of the things I said."
},
{
"author":"Yogi Berra",
"quote":"Even Napoleon had his Watergate."
}
]
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