Hilarious Quotes - Page 2
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."
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.
"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)
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
Phyllis Diller (2006). “Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy”, p.77, Penguin
P. J. O'Rourke (1983). “Modern manners”, Dell Books
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