Bram Stoker on comedy

Listen to them — the children of the night. What music they make.

No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.

The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.

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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