A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

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If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is...

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is...

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.

An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.

An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.

A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.

A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.