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Date Posted:2024-10-09 08:26:30Copy HTML

Growing old is something you do if you're lucky      

It is impossible to design anything that is foolproof because fools are ingenious

Before I speak I have something important to say                 

Groucho Marx


You know that look that women get when they want sex? Me neither           Steve Martin

When choosing between two evils I always pick the one I haven't tried before       Mae West

There are a number of mechanical devices which increase the sexual arousal of women, a Ferrari is one of them     

P J O'Rourke

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove you don't need it           Bob Hope

All I ask is a chance to prove that money won't make me happy       Spike Milligan

A secret is something that is only repeated to one person at a time           Robert McCrum

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Date Posted:2026-02-01 02:30:31Copy HTML

"The rich get their ice in the summer; the poor get theirs in the winter." Bat Masterson former lawman who died at his desk in NYC in 1921. He was a sportswriter for a NY newspaper at the time, & those words were on the typewriter paper he was working on.
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Date Posted:2026-02-04 04:13:37Copy HTML

In the 18th century in England a tax on windows was enacted so people bricked them up to avoid it, which is where we get the saying, daylight robbery
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Date Posted:2026-02-04 06:45:56Copy HTML

You can still find houses today with windows bricked up 200 years ago.

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You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning. Arnold Bennett
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"A cynic is a man who when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin." H.L. Mencken
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Communism is a great idea, wrong species. Jimmy Carr
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