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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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Some Memorably Mischievous Political Quotes
“I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.—Winston Churchill
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“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself.”—Mark Twain
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“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”—George Bernard Shaw
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“Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.” —James Bovard, civil libertarian (1994)
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“Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.” —Douglas Casey, classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University
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“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to boys.” —P.J. O'Rourke, civil libertarian
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“Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.” —Frederic Bastiat, French economist (1801-1850)
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“Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”—Ronald Reagan (1986)
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“I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.” —Will Rogers
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“If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.”—P.J. O'Rourke
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“In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.”—Voltaire (1764)
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“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.”—Pericles (430 B.C)
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“No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.”—Mark Twain (1866)
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“Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.”—Unknown
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“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery...”—Winston Churchill
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“What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.”—Edward Langley, artist (1928 - 1995)
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“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.”—Thomas Jefferson
—From Lifesmith Classic Fractals: Fun with the English Language
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