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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

James Thurber

The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals
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Animal Dog Fun Laughter Man Reason
Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Death One Liner Reason Treason
Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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Collision Fly Greatness Man World
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Break Up Love Yourself
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can’t blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
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Clear Comedy Famous Imagination Point
Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
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Behavior Man Mindset Understand
If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.
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Herself Man Sex Strong Woman Wonder
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Instagram Captions Philosophy Thinking
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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Company Crowd Party Travel Wanderer
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
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Funny Himself Person Smart World
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
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Belief Dog Heaven Immortal Known Myself Person
I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
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Cleaning Hands Night Reason

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