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LANGUAGE HUMOR AT ITS FINEST
Making yourself more proficient in English need not be a drag. You can actually speed up the learning process and make it fun by generously lacing it with humor—but preferably the best that the English language can offer.
In this new section, apart from giving a fixed slot to our weekly “In a Lighter Vein” pop-out humor piece in the Forum homepage, we have put together the finest of those weekly humor pop-ups since the Forum started. The best of them—collected from various sources on the web and sent in by friends—are all here, posted in the Forum under the following headings: Wordplay, On the Job, Student and School Life, and Miscellany.
So if you missed any of the best of the Forum’s weekly humor pop-ups, you can enjoy and savor them again and again here—and better still, share them with your friends!
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Just a Few Truisms
Money doesn’t bring you happiness, but it enables you to look for it in more places.
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Your conscience may not keep you from doing wrong, but it sure keeps you from enjoying it.
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Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.
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Misers aren’t much fun to live with, but they make great ancestors.
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Be careful what rut you choose. You may be in it the rest of your life.
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The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket.
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When you see the handwriting on the wall, you can bet you’re in a public restroom.
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Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.
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The real reason you can’t take it with you is that it goes before you do.
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Junk is something you throw away three weeks before you need it.
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Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if you wish they were.
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A closed mouth gathers no feet.
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A man (or woman) who can smile when things go wrong has found someone to blame it on.
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A modern pioneer is a woman who can get through a rainy Saturday with a television on the blink.
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The world is full of willing people: some willing to work and some willing to let them.
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Money isn’t everything.... there’s credit cards, money orders, and travelers checks.
—From the truism collection of The Humor Bin
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