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

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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.

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 woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never...

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never...

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.

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.

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.

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...

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 believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and...

I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and...

I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you...

I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you...

Black and Mexican jokes are all the same. Once you've heard Juan, you've heard Jamal.

Black and Mexican jokes are all the same. Once you've heard Juan, you've heard Jamal.

Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help...

Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help...

The internet is a stalker. Facebook asks what Im thinking. Twitter asks what Im doing....

The internet is a stalker. Facebook asks what Im thinking. Twitter asks what Im doing....

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is...

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is...

The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own...

The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own...

Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and...

Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and...

I want to mail my mailman something. He always brings me mail, yet I never...

I want to mail my mailman something. He always brings me mail, yet I never...

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as...

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as...

There are few doors through which liberality, joined with good humor, cannot find its way.

There are few doors through which liberality, joined with good humor, cannot find its way.

If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?

If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?