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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. – Jean Baudrillard	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A little girl can be sweeter (and badder) oftener than anyone else in the world. She can jitter around, and stomp, and make funny noises that frazzle your nerves, yet just when you open your mouth she stands there demure with that special look in her eyes. A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot. – Alan Marshall Beck	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh Because it is a gravely religious matter it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd for only man can be dignified. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. – Guy	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The funny thing about stopping is that as soon as you do it, here you are. – Jon Kabit-Zinn	added by anonymous 14 years ago
God writes a lot of comedy the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. – Garrison Keillor	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things. – Ken Kesey	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The best ideas come from jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible. – David Ogilvie	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If you can't be funny, be interesting. – Harold Ross	added by anonymous 14 years ago
From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere. – Dr. Seuss	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. – Peter Ustinov	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Funny is an attitude. – Flip Wilson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It's funny, to me, the way people refer to childbirth as a miraculous event. A miracle is something that defies nature. Only, childbirth has got to be the most natural thing in the world. Top three anyway. But, on the other hand, when you think about it, there's really no other word that fits. Sperm. Egg. A coincidental meshing of genetic information that will grow something that could write an opera or cook up some Napalm. It blows my mind. – Barbara Hall	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head. – Dennis Miller	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Funny business, a woman's career the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted. – Joseph L. Mankiewicz	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Talking perceptions, people. Do we really see each other for what we really are, or do we just see what we want to see, the image distorted by our own personal lenses I lost someone today and the funny thing is, I don't even know who she was. – Jeff Melvoin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it – Eleanor H. Porter	added by anonymous 14 years ago
English is a funny language..... De(a)dication can lead you to all the success in Life – Siddharth Astir	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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