115 Quotes by Art Buchwald

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    Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week.

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    I just don’t want to die the same day Castro dies.

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    I like champagne because it always tastes as though my foot’s asleep.

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    I’ve found it’s harder for the family of the patient to accept what’s happening. In most cases – not all – the dying person has accepted his fate.

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    The irony of our culture is that people are constantly telling other people to go to hell, but no one tells them to go to heaven.

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    Men and women cannot live by bread alone. They must also tinkle. Show me someone who has no trouble tinkling, and I will show you a happy and rich person.

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    The Marine Corps was the first father figure I had ever known.

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    Being in the hospice didn't work out exactly the way I had expected. By all rights, I should have finished my time here in mid-March 2006 - at least, that's when Medicare stopped paying.

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    Becoming eighty is a matter of life or death. I chose life. It is a much better position to be in, and it's easier on your back.

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