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If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.

Quoted in Bennett Cerf, Try and Stop Me: A Collection of Anecdotes and Stories, Mostly Humorous (1944). Although this is usually credited to Mizner, the Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 1941, quotes Bob Oliver: "If you steal from one man, it's plagiarism. If you steal from several, it's research."

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories”, p.75, eBookIt.com

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

"The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time (Dirk Gently, Book 3)". Book by Douglas Adams, 2002.

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

"Frequent Flyer Humor and One-Upmanship". Book by George W. Stewart, Dog Ear Publishing, p. 12, 2011.

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

The Illiterate Digest "Warning to Jokers: Lay Off the Prince" (1924)

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

Canada Month, June 1963. A later satirical version of this saying added to the end "Luckily, this is not difficult" (Paul Dickson, The Official Rules [1978]). See Eleanor Roosevelt 2

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?

Phyllis Diller (2006). “Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy”, p.77, Penguin

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.

Dave Barry (2013). “My Teenage Son's Goal in Life Is to Make Me Feel 3,500 Years Old: and Other Thoughts on Parenting from Dave Barry”, p.100, Andrews McMeel Publishing