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Funny Quotes - Page 105

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

Venture Science Fiction, March 1958.

In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.

"Dictionary of Humorous Quotations" edited by Evan Esar, (p. 156), 1949.

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

Quoted in Reader's Digest, Sept. 1949. According to Nigel Rees, Cassell's Humorous Quotations, the following appeared in Punch in 1924: " 'It took me nearly ten years to learn that I couldn't write.' 'I suppose you gave it up then?' 'Oh, no! By that time I had a reputation established.' " The issue referred to by Rees is 6 Feb., and the cartoonist is R. Curry.

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rita Rudner (2008). “I Still Have It . . . I Just Can't Remember Where I Put It: Confessions of a Fiftysomething”, p.86, Crown Archetype

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

Quoted in James B. Simpson, Contemporary Quotations (1964)

We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate.

"The Best of Kin Hubbard: Abe Martin’s Sayings and Wisecracks, Abe’s Neighbors, His Almanack, Comic Drawings". Book by Kin Hubbard, October 1, 1984.