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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

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

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Toasts
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Dorothy Parker
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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

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Teenagers
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Dorothy Parker
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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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Dorothy Parker
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Other Quotes from
Humor
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Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. – Lionel Trilling

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I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and its humor thats often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery. – Danny Boyle

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Humor

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. Its jolted by every pebble on the road. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Humor

Wit.—Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. – Friedrich Nietzsche, “Miscellaneous Maxims and Opinions” (#202, 1879), Human, Al

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Humor

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Im not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. – Lord Acton

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. – Aristotle Onassis

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All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie. – Bob Dylan

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