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If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.

Barry Humphries

To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one’s mother.
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Mother Night Party
Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
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Beautiful Men Secretary Sex Thing
I like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn’t so bad. BO chic it should be called.
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Bad Chic Little People Unhygienic
I love Australia – I think.
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Country Emotion Love Thinking
Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
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Struggle Thick Years
I’ve decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don’t, if you put them first, they never thank you. You’ll never get a word of thanks from them.
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First Lasts Secret
It’s an old Aboriginal word meaning ‘Let’s get together and have fun’. They gave us the word because they had no further need for it.
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Fun Needs Together
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
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Humor Laughing Memorable
My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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Army Children Parent
Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that’s only a recent development.
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Country Funny Humor
I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.
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Athletic Contemporaries Coronary Golf Occlusion
My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven’t met yet. She’s now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia
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Friendship Funny Mom
If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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Explain Give Up might Satire
The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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Defend Matter Spoken Truth
New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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Country Sheep Thinking
I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
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Funny Laughing Priceless

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