Quote by Dorothy Parker
Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with wor

Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words. – Dorothy Parker

Other quotes by Dorothy Parker

He Robert Benchley and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery. – Dorothy Parker

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Office
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned; The calmer, I, to see it true That ways of love are never new- The love that sets you daft and dazed Is every love that ever blazed; The happier, I, to fathom this: A kiss is every other kiss. – Dorothy Parker

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Love :: Kisses
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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.) – Dorothy Parker

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Parties
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Humor
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Humor comes from self-confidence. – Rita Mae Brown

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Humor

I mean, yeah, Im sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I dont think its all that different than the American sense of humor. – Simon Pegg

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Humor

A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor. – Maynard James Keenan

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Humor

Its hard to force creativity and humor. – Al Yankovic

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Humor

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Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5, 000 Gideon Bibles. – Zsa Zsa Gabor

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Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other. – Albert Pike

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great

Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new. – Aeschylus

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Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste. – Thomas Edward Brown

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