"This is not an easy time for humorists because the government is far funnier than we are."

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Source : 1987 Speech to international meeting of satirists and cartoonists. Reported in the NewYork Times, 28 Jun.

Art Buchwald

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“I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.”
“But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script.”
“Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.”
“In 1962 I was 17, so I was definitely watching the dance shows on television.”
“So we both strip off our boots and socks and, while thereâ€™s some improvement, I could swear heâ€™s making an effort to snap every branch we encounter”
“Leave the past in the past, tomorrows not promised and Todays just a gift i guess thats why its the present”
“Here is a quilted book about mathematical practice, each patch wonderfully prepared. Part invitation to number theory, part autobiography, part sociology of mathematical training, Mathematics without Apologies brings us into contemporary mathematics as a living, active inquiry by real people. Anyone wanting a varied, cultured, and penetrating view of today's mathematics could find no better place to engage.”
“Jane," I said quietly. She opened her eyes, she had been far away in prayer. "Yes, Mary? Forgive me, I was praying." "If you go on flirting with the king with those sickly little smiles, one of us Boleyns is going to scratch your eyes out.”

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