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

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires. – Dorothy Parker

Category:
Teenagers
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I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three Im under the table,
After four Im under my host! – Dorothy Parker

Category:
Toasts
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Other Quotes from
Humor
category

If golf wasnt enjoyable and there wasnt a lot of humor and enjoyment, even though the game is so frustrating, you would wonder why you put yourself through it. – Ray Romano

Category:
Humor

To me, sadness and humor arent disrelated and humor is the best tool Ive had against the sadness in my life. – Mike Mills

Category:
Humor

The president of General Motors was in a foul humor. – Arthur Hailey

Category:
Humor

Bad humor is an evasion of reality good humor is an acceptance of it. – Malcolm Muggeridge

Category:
Humor

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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war. – Norman Schwarzkopf

Category:
Peace

I have made this [letter] longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter. – Blaise Pascal, Lettres Provinciales, 1657, translated from French

Category:
Brevity

A case which commonly happens with us in London, as well as our Neighbours in Paris, where if a Witty Man starts a happy thought, a Million of sordid Imitators ride it to death. – Thomas Brown, Laconics: Or, New Maxims of State and Conversation

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Quotations

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue. – Edward R. Murrow

Category:
communication