“All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax decision: Where else are you going to read the paper? Outside? What if it rains?” IfsUseBigsPurposeHouseJusticeDecisionStreetsExampleWallCostTaxesPaperHumorousRainCourtPossessionNewspapersSupremeChiefsCorporationsRelatedWhat IfJournalSupreme CourtBurgersLandmarksBig CorporationsDepreciateWall Street JournalChief JusticeBusiness Related Author:Dave Barry
“What a crock. I could easily overemphasize the importance of good grammar. For example, I could say: Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America, or Without good grammar, the United States would have lost World War II.” WorldWarStatesAmericaLostCausesUnitedUnited StatesExampleHumorousImportancePainfulWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War IGrammarNorth AmericaLeading CausesPainful DeathBad Grammar Author:Dave Barry
“You men out there probably think you already know how to dress for success. You know, for example, that you should not wear leisure suits or white plastic belts and shoes, unless you are going to a costume party disguised as a pig farmer vacationing at Disney World.” ThinkingKnowsMenWorldShouldWhitePartyKnow HowExampleHumorousDressesShoesSuitsFarmersLeisurePlasticPigsCostumesBelts Author:Dave Barry
“Considering that "literary fiction" is a sub-genre that's not quite the same as "literature," either, it follows that the short, semi-humorous bits posted online for all to see are something absolutely other, uniquely themselves compared to canonical short stories, for example, and so it'd probably be best to call it something other than "online lit" since I honestly think very little of it can compare to so-called "literature."” ThinkingLittlesStoriesLiteratureBitsFictionExampleHumorousHonestlyCompareGenreOnlineShort StoryConsideringLit Author:Lee Klein
“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.” MotivationalFunnyBusinessExampleHumilityHumorousHarderProfoundSarcasmRole ModelsFunny InspirationalGood ExamplesAnnoyanceGood HumorWittiestBeing A Role ModelSetting An ExampleSetting A Good Example Author:Mark Twain
“There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed, for example, that we all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summertime and the poor get it in the winter.” WorldFunnyPoorBreakRichExampleAmountSummerHumorousWinterRichesIceIronicRichnessJulySummertimeOld World Author:Bat Masterson