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Frank Muir

Frank Muir Books

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Frank Muir was a British writer known for his humorous and satirical style. His works spanned across drama, broadcasting, and literature, with his most famous creation being the radio comedy 'The Goon Show', co-written with John Cleese. Muir's work is celebrated for its unique sense of humor and insightful commentary on social phenomena.

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“A golf ball is white, dimpled like a bishop's knees, and is the size of small mandarin oranges or those huge pills which vets blow down the throats of constipated cart-horses.”

White Huge Balls Horse Golf Size Blow Knees Throat Orange Pills Bishops Carts Vets Golf Ball

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“The glances over cocktails That seem to be so sweet Don't seem quite so amorous Over Shredded Wheat”

Seems Food Sweet Cooking Culinary Glances Wheat Cocktails Amorous

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“The speeches to be wary of are those that begin with I'm just going to say a few words.”

Speech Few Words

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“Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.”

Way Solitude Weapons Jokes Wit Pursuit Gentle Superiority Masculine

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“The golden rule when reading the menu is, if you cannot pronounce it, you cannot afford it.”

Ifs Reading Golden Golden Rule Menus

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“It has been said that a bride's attitude towards her betrothed can be summed up in three words: Aisle. Alter. Hymn.”

Love Has Beens Said Funny Three Attitude Marriage Brides Hymns Aisle Three Words

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“Some breakfast food manufacturer hit upon the simple notion of emptying out the leavings of carthorse nose bags, adding a few other things like unconsumed portions of chicken layer's mash, and the sweepings of racing stables, packing the mixture in little bags and selling them in health food shops.”

Littles Simple Food Cooking Notion Leaving Selling Noses Shops Bags Culinary Chickens Breakfast Racing Portions Layers Mixtures Fast Food Sweeping Packing Health Food Breakfast Food Simple Food

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“Hotel tea is when you have to mix together a plastic envelope containing too much sugar, a small plastic pot of something which is not milk but has curdled anyway, and a thin brown packet seemingly containing the ashes of a cremated mole.”

Together Too Much Tea Brown Hotel Pot Milk Sugar Plastic Ashes Envelopes Containing Moles

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“Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.”

Fine Drink Strategy Wine Dinner Buying Bottles Tactics Fine Wine Tactics And Strategy Like Fine Wine

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About the Author

Born: February 5, 1920
Died: January 2, 1998
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 9

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