Robert Louis Stevenson on comedy

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

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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