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Jon Winokur

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