John Buchan on comedy

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

It is only a dying cause which can attain to perfect taste.

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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