Sir Julian Huxley

English administrator & biologist (1887 - 1975)

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

Adrienne E. Gusoff

US teacher, humorist and greeting card writer

Not only is life a bitch, it has puppies.

Adrienne E. Gusoff

Adrienne E. Gusoff

US teacher, humorist and greeting card writer

I have often depended on the blindness of strangers.

Adrienne E. Gusoff

Rita Rudner

US comedian

My mother buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping.

Rita Rudner

Henny Youngman

US (English-born) comedian (1906 - 1998)

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

Henny Youngman

Oscar Levant

(1906 - 1972)

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.

Oscar Levant

Ralph Waldo Emerson

US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

US author & wit (1884 - 1980)

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Jerome K. Jerome

British humor writer (1859 - 1927)

It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

Jerome K. Jerome

Rita Rudner

US comedian

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

Rita Rudner

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

French author & moralist (1613 - 1680)

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

From the 1985 movie "Bliss"

The entire economy of the Western world is built on things that cause cancer.

From the 1985 movie "Bliss"

Henny Youngman

US (English-born) comedian (1906 - 1998)

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.

Henny Youngman

Plato

Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC)

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

Plato

Alice James

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Alice James

Jerome K. Jerome

British humor writer (1859 - 1927)

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

Jerome K. Jerome

Dave Barry

US columnist & humorist (1947 - )

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.

Dave Barry

Bertrand Russell

British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Bertrand Russell

John D. Rockefeller

US oil industrialist & philanthropist (1839 - 1937)

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

John D. Rockefeller

Adrienne E. Gusoff

US teacher, humorist and greeting card writer

Living in a vacuum sucks.

Adrienne E. Gusoff



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