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“If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.” quote by Alan King — Download Open image

“If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.”

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My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn't let him cut my nails.

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And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.

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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.

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Age, style, where you come from, where you were born, it's different every time, which, to me, is refreshing because it says that there…

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Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn't know fluffy. Everything sank.

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There's nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.

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I'm not dismissing the value of higher education; I'm simply saying it comes at the expense of experience.

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If you want to gain market share at your competitor's expense - look for a customer that's suffering from too much complexity and simplify…

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Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.

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He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another's expense.

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Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.

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