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Funny Sayings:
Travel

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
- Mark Russell

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.
- Fred Allen

Europe is divided between Germany, who doesn't want to spend any money, and France, who wants to blow it all on hookers.
- Andy Breckman

The average age on our [Atlantic] crossing, I’d guess, was well over 60. There was an abundance of wheelchairs, walkers and canes, so many that if everyone had tossed theirs overboard at once they would have created an artificial reef.
- Dwight Garner

The London street system....no street ever goes in the same direction or keeps the same name for more than 35 yards. At that point it veers off in a new direction under a new name, assuming a whole new identity under the London Street Witness Protection Program.
- Dave Barry

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Advertising

Don’t tell my mother I work in an advertising agency. She thinks I play piano in a whorehouse.
- Jacques Seguela

Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission.
- Fred Allen

In general, my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced on TV.
- Erma Bombeck

I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree
Perhaps unless the billboards fall
I shall never see a tree at all
- Ogden Nash

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing, when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
- Rod Serling

When a man throws an empty cigarette package from an automobile, he is liable to a fine of $50. When a man throws a billboard across a view, he is richly rewarded.
- Pat Brown

Funny Sayings:
TV and Radio

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news, we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
- David Brinkley

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
- Ann Landers

One of television’s great contributions is that it brought murder back into the home, where it belongs.
- Alfred Hitchcock

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.
- Lily Tomlin

You look at TV too long and, boy, after a few hours you want to go out and shoot yourself in the head.
- Tammy Faye Bakker Messner

In 1966, Spencer Tracy was offered the role of The Penguin in the TV series Batman, before Burgess Meredith. Tracy said he would only accept the role if “he was allowed to kill Batman.”
- Phil Proctor

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Humorous Quotations:
Writing and Journalism

What’s the difference between a three week old puppy and a sportswriter? In six weeks, the puppy stops whining.
- Mike Ditka

Never bring a malapropism to a pun fight.
- gonnnzo

I love being a writer. What I can’t stand is the paperwork.
- Peter De Vries

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done, so now I just have to fill in the rest.
- Steven Wright

These days it seems like any idiot with a laptop computer can churn out a business book and make a few bucks. That's certainly what I'm hoping. If would be a real letdown if the trend changed before this masterpiece goes to print.
- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle

I’d like to apologize to the English language for that sentence.
- Sam Mellinger, after a particularly awkward construction.

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Funny Sayings:
Technology

I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
- Douglas Adams

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of 'call waiting'.
- Dave Barry

Do old people know that computers can do other things besides forwarding stuff?
- andy lassner ‏@andylassner

I've had my new iPhone for five minutes, and my old phone already seems like a crazy person I can't believe I dated for years.
- PrincessCandyEmpire ‏@llvvzz

Doctor told me I only have 6 months to live, maybe 12 if I get enough likes on Facebook.
- Terry F ‏@daemonic3

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