Mel Brooks on comedy

Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We’re unrehearsed.

I’ve been accused of vulgarity. I say that’s bullshit.

Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

Those are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others.

Groucho Marx1890–1977

A guy could have one major limb lying on the ground a full ten feet from the rest of his body, and he’d claim it was ‘just a sprain’.

Dave Barryborn 1947

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