Source: John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings
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“I'm gonna put all my money into taxes. They're sure to go up.”
Source: You can say that again, Sam! The choice wit and wisdom of Sam Levenson
“Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.”
“There are no funny lawyers - only funny people who made a career mistake.”
“If I had it [life] to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber.”
Source: Ronald Reagan
Source: Real Men Don't Eat Quiche
“The human race never solves any of its problems, it only outlives them.”
“In my life I've easily lost 500 pounds but for some reason they keep finding me.”
“The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist Jack.”
“Fish and guests in three days are stale.”
Source: Euphues
“Young men still desire women as much as ever, even though they don't want to marry them as much.”
“I don't care if my lettuce has DDT on it, just as long as it's crisp.”
“We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.”
“The man who called it "near beer" was a bad judge of distance.”
“The best way to clean up a son's room is to close the door and pretend it's not part of the house.”
Source: You can fool all of the people all the time
“There's another advantage to being poor - a doctor will cure you faster.”
“Most parents don't worry about a daughter until she fails to show up for breakfast.”
“We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.”
Source: Addresses Upon the American Road
“Why take pride in cooking, when they don't take pride in eating?”
Source: Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .
Source: Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .
“The good old horse-and-buggy days: then you lived until you died and not until you were run over.”
Source: The Will Rogers book