Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
DICK GREGORYIf they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol, and caffeine off the market for six days, they’d have to bring out the tanks to control you.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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Makes you wonder. When I left St. Louis, I was making five dollars a night. Now I’m getting $5,000 a week — for saying the same things out loud I used to say under my breath.
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Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.
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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening – there wasn’t no 24-hour news.
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America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don’t misuse a household pet.
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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp – just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.
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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.
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If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol, and caffeine off the market for six days, they’d have to bring out the tanks to control you.
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Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
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