The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.
ALAN CORENA 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.
More Alan Coren Quotes
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Malta is the only country in the world where the local delicacy is the bread.
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To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.
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Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea.
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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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Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they’ve told you what you think it is you want to hear.
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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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It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept.
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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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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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10.30 Newsnight: What Are The Chances Of World War Three Breaking Out After You Have Gone To Bed?
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Enjoy your life today because yesterday had gone and tomorrow may never come.
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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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But even today, ninety per cent of the items covered by the word are forgettable objects in which cigarettes can be left to go stale.
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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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Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.
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