To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.
ALAN CORENThe role of humour is to make people fall down and writhe on the Axminster, and that is the top and bottom of it.
More Alan Coren Quotes
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Jacob is a German Shepherd. (I have never understood why they aren’t called German Sheepdogs. What do the Germans call shepherds?)
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A humorist tells himself every morning, “I hope it’s going to be a rough day.” When things are going well, it’s much harder to make the right jokes.
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I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.
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Ethnically, the Germans are Teutonic… being made up of Vandals, Gepidae, and Goths, all of whom emigrated – south from Sweden in about 500 BC.
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All I know of birds to this date is that sparrows are the ones that are not pigeons.
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Disneyworld… is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin’s, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan’s.
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The role of humour is to make people fall down and writhe on the Axminster, and that is the top and bottom of it.
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Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea.
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Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they’ve told you what you think it is you want to hear.
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Enjoy your life today because yesterday had gone and tomorrow may never come.
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Being a personality is not the same thing as having a personality.
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The word “souvenir” has, of course, slightly extended itself in meaning until it now denotes almost anything either breakable or useless.
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Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.
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Inside this hothouse, huge lascivious orchids slide sensuously up the sweating windows, passion-flowers cross-pollinate in wild heliotrope abandon, lotuses writhe with poppies in the sweet warm beds.
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10.30 Newsnight: What Are The Chances Of World War Three Breaking Out After You Have Gone To Bed?
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