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A Dozen Funny Quotes

A selection of amusing quotations make you smile. Perhaps, even, chuckle.


Sign saying: Why limit happy to an hour?

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. Abraham Lincoln


I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink. Joe E. Lewis


I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. Douglas Adams


You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think. Milton Berle


When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always. Rita Rudner


I wanna make a jigsaw puzzle that's 40,000 pieces. And when you finish it, it says 'go outside.' Demetri Martin


Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone? James Thurber


One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. Samuel Johnson


If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor. Joan Rivers


Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini? Robert Benchley


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. Albert Einstein


My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra. Angie Dickinson


More upbeat quotes on lots of different subjects...

 

Today's Magazine articles


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Carbon Vaults: Two good reasons for optimism on how mankind can hoover up vast amounts of carbon dioxide.


Remarkable Progress: In their final year at law school, Solomon Yeo and his classmates set their minds to saving the world. Four years later their idea has made it to the International Court of Justice.


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