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Wit Quotes - Page 4

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!

"American Voters Suffer Learned Helplessness" by Andrea Chalupa, bigthink.com. September 7, 2012.

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

FaceBook post by Steve Martin from Jun 14, 2011

All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.

Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.500, Discovery House

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.

Attributed to Dorothy Parker after her death in Robert E. Drennan "The Algonquin Wits" (p. 124), 1968.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

"Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, p. 362, 1977.

Why do they call it "rush hour" when nothing moves?

"Fictional character: Mork". "Mork & Mindy/ Mork in Love", www.imdb.com. 1978.

You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

Remarks to Rump Parliament, 20 Apr. 1653. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations describes this as "oral tradition." BulstrodeWhitlocke, Memorials of the English Affairs (1682), describes Cromwell as telling the House that "they has sate long enough, unles they had done more good."

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

"Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television". Stand-up act, edition.cnn.com. 1972.

[He] may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot.

"Fictional character: Rufus T. Firefly". "Duck Soup", www.imdb.com. 1933.