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

Barry Humphries

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
The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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Defend Matter Spoken Truth
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
The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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Best Delightful Live Past Place
I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.
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Body Bother Hair Men Some Women
Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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Inspirational Sports Pursuit Sports
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
Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
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Struggle Thick Years
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
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
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
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
I drift along, thinking about the past a great deal. The past is so reliable, so delightful, and the best place to live. I end up there quite often, you know; it’s very comfortable and dependable.
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Art Past Thinking
I think a lot of people think that we [comedians] are nerveless people in the theatre, that we don’t feel that kind of terror which traditionally anyone who has to do any public speaking feels. It’s worse for actors, because our livelihood depends on it.
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Comedian People Thinking
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

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