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Humorous Quotes - Page 29

Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed

Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.382, Courier Corporation

I've been things and seen places.

I'm No Angel (motion picture) (1933)

San Francisco isn't what it used to be, and it never was.

Herb Caen (1967). “San Francisco, City on Golden Hills”

Most young women do not welcome promiscuous advances. (Either that, or my luck's terrible.)

Groucho Marx (2008). “Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover”, p.88, Da Capo Press

She's so in love with me, she doesn't know anything. That's why she's in love with me.

"Fictional character: Dr. Hackenbush". "A Day at the Races", www.imdb.com. 1937.

You cannot just quote from history and above all you cannot take it out of context, in however humorous a fashion . On the contrary history has a natural continuity which must be respected

Gottfried Böhm, Hyatt Foundation (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1986). “The Pritzker Architecture Prize 1986, presented to Gottfried Böhm”

It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2633, e-artnow

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

Quoted in Art Spiegelman and Bob Schneider, Whole Grains: A Book of Quotations (1973). Although usually attributed toWright, it was credited toWill Rogers ("Tilt this country on end and everything loose will slide into Los Angeles") in the Washington Post, 17 May 1964.

The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.

Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.166, Ballantine Books