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Jon Winokur
Jon Winokur is the malcontent behind the Curmudgeon books, The Big Book of Irony and other humor/reference titles. He’s been in a bad mood since 1971.
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How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers. GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
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Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor who just wanted to see what it was like in there. KARL KRAUS
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The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
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There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. PETER DE VRIES
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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. VOLTAIRE
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The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool. VOLTAIRE
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That all men are created equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent. ALDOUS HUXLEY
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Every year, Christmas gets longer and longer. When I was a kid, Halloween was Halloween, and Santa wasn't poking his ass into it!LEWIS BLACK
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Positive thinking is the most stressful thing you can do. DEEPAK CHOPRA
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The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat, clean, quite solvent business. WILLIAM FAULKNER
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Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
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Santa Claus has the right idea: visit people once a year. VICTOR BORGE
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New York: Where everyone mutinies but no one deserts. HARRY HERSHFIELD
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We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were. MORT SAHL
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This quote best sums up the decade: "We did it for the show." -- Balloon Boy (via @
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I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back. FRED ALLEN
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One goes to see a tragedy to be moved; to the opera one goes either for want of any other interest or to facilitate digestion. VOLTAIRE
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Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty. ARISTOTLE
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My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally. EVELYN WAUGH
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“Merry Christmas, Nearly Everybody!” OGDEN NASH
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Art is long and life is short: here is evidently the explanation of a Brahms symphony. EDWARD LORNE
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Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil. ANATOLE FRANCE
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible. H. L. MENCKEN
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Oh life is a glorious cycle of song,/ A medley of extemporanea;/ And love is a thing that can never go wrong;/ And (cont)
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And Here's the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on their Craft by Mike Sacks
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Fidelity n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. AMBROSE BIERCE
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste. BERTOLT BRECHT
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What is more enchanting than the voices of young people when you can’t hear what they say? LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH
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The murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums. PETER DE VRIES
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