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I watched Ken Burns' Civil War series on PBS. My favorite segment is when Bob Hope entertains the troops at Gettysburg. — Mort Sahl

Hillary's explanation of the Libyan action to Congress was so good, I wonder who explained it to her? — Mort Sahl

The beat generation is a coffeehouse full of people expectantly looking at their watches waiting for the beat generation to come on. *1958 — Mort Sahl

i'm
as thin
as your
eyelashes — Valzhyna Mort

Life is not for show, but for real. — Mort Kondracke

A conservative doesn't want anything to happen for the first time; a liberal feels it should happen, but not now. — Mort Sahl

I don't believe in good people and bad people. I believe in the better parts of people. — Mort Sahl

Television is never more false than when it's openly sincere. — Mort Sahl

When people write comedy from neutrality, it just gets kind of silly. — Mort Sahl

I don't think fascism is dying for. — Mort Sahl

A political satirist's job is to draw blood. I'm not so much interested in politics as I am in overthrowing the government. — Mort Sahl

Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart. — Mort Walker

The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi. — Mort Sahl

A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now. — Mort Sahl

My life needs editing. — Mort Sahl

You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper. — Mort Walker

That feeling of hopelessness only serves your masters. — Mort Sahl

If you can't join them, beat them. — Mort Sahl

I found people looked better when they laughed — Mort Sahl

Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost. — Mort Sahl

Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference. — Mort Sahl

Swan dive down eleven stories high
Hold your breath until you see the light
You can sink to the bottom of the sea
Just don't go without me — The Civil Wars

You know me, I love lost causes. — Mort Sahl

When I draw, I rule the world. — Mort Walker

You know what I want you to do? I want you to blow out the candle and curse the darkness. — Mort Sahl

I was kicked out of The Stars And Stripes twice, and finally got back in. — Mort Walker

Death is the word that kills all the words. (La mort est un mot - Qui tue tous les mots) — Charles De Leusse

We're all entitled to our own opinions. But none of us can afford to be wrong in our facts. — Mort Crim

Mort Meskin was a consummate professional, dedicated to his work. A great talent. — Jack Kirby

Who underestimates is buried in the optimism of the deads. (Qui sous-estime s'enterre - Dans l'optimisme des morts.) — Charles De Leusse

The-what? You went over my head?"
"It wasn't easy, I assure you," said Uncle Mort, shifting the car into gear. "That thing gets bigger every day. — Gina Damico

Remember when movies were just good or bad, before auteurs, film festivals, and guys from USC who were the first to shoot underwater? — Mort Sahl

When Obama ran, he said, We can change the world! The world: can you change it back?! — Mort Sahl

Mort isn't my name, of course - I was creative director of mortality, and Dr. Jeth had us all go by titles. — Tom Francis

My whole life is a movie. It's just that there are no dissolves. I have to live every agonizing moment of it. My life needs editing. — Mort Sahl

Mort was hurt by this. It was one thing not to want to marry someone, but quite another to be told they didn't want to marry you. — Terry Pratchett

Mort(e) is wonderful and weird, never saccharine and always startling. — Cat Rambo

The money opens many doors. That of the coffin, among other things. (L'argent ouvre de nombreuses portes. - Celle du cercueil, entre autres.) — Charles De Leusse

People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely. — Mort Sahl

Any good parody takes a grain of truth and exaggerates it for the big screen. People ask me if I'm offended at all and I say not in the least. — Mort Crim

This matter of two sides to every question is bad logic and bad practice: sometimes there are no sides; sometimes there are a hundred. — Mort Sahl

We all know that America is the worst country in the world, except for all the others. — Mort Sahl

Now that Obama is at war in a 3rd country, does that mean he has to give back his Nobel Peace Prize? — Mort Sahl

HAVE YOU EVER BITTEN REDHOT ICE CUBE? THAT'S CURRY. — Terry Pratchett

THERE'S NO JUSTICE, said Mort. JUST US. — Terry Pratchett

We thought the fireworks were marvelous," said Mort. "And I expect they'll soon be able to rebuild the outer wall. — Terry Pratchett

I was a teenage boy once too, you know," Uncle Mort said, popping back up. "I know what your brain looks like. It's a three-ring circus in there. — Gina Damico

The memory of the dead is indeed a good remorse. (Le souvenir des morts - Est bien un bon remords) — Charles De Leusse

We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were. — Mort Sahl

You don't know about that what you talk about," he added, with more feeling than grammar, "else you wouldn't say that. What do you want from me?" Mort — Terry Pratchett

Mort: How do you get all these coins?
Death: IN PAIRS — Terry Pratchett

I've arranged with my executor to be buried in Chicago. Because when I die, I want to still remain active politically. — Mort Sahl

Practically every day, there is a story in the newspapers about a new breakthrough drug on Parkinson's. — Mort Kondracke

We were just showering," Lex muttered.
"Of course," Uncle Mort said. "Everyone knows how impossible it is to zestfully clean without assistance. — Gina Damico

The New York Times is the official leak of the State Department. — Mort Sahl

The topics which language limits us to aren't much worth discussing in the first place.
(attrib: F.L. Vanderson) — Mort W. Lumsden

Who sees the death blinds the death. (Qui voit la mort - Aveugle la mort) — Charles De Leusse

I used to go to two movies every week for the Saturday matinee when I was a kid. — Mort Sahl

I'm a radical, and I always have been. — Mort Sahl

I went to computer class with my Dell and I was bullied by a guy with a Mac. — Mort Sahl

Every time the Russians throw an American in jail, the Committee throws an American in jail to get even. — Mort Sahl

There are Russian spies here now. And if we're lucky, they'll steal some of our secrets and they'll be two years behind. — Mort Sahl

You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion. — Mort Walker

Mort glanced sideways at the top of Ysabell's dress, which contained enough puppy fat for two litters of Rottweilers, and forbore to comment. — Terry Pratchett

NO ONE GETS PARDONED FOR LIVING. — Terry Pratchett

Obama said he went to Libya because of his conscience. Did anyone ever wrestle with his conscience and lose? — Mort Sahl

Mort chuckled when she staggered through the tomb door. "Witch Slayer, are you? Another lovely title to add to your repertoire. — Sarah J. Maas

Obama is running again for spite. — Mort Sahl

It was nice to kill time. But the time buries us before... (On a beau tuer le temps, - Il nous enterre avant) — Charles De Leusse

Death lasts only a moment, but we think about it every moment. (La mort ne dure qu'un instant, - Mais on y pense chaque instant) — Charles De Leusse

You haven't lived until you've died in California — Mort Sahl

Some people will do schlock or anything, just to get their name on it. — Mort Walker

It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. — Mort Walker

There's so much Botox around now that you can't tell when a Jewish girl is angry! — Mort Sahl

One thing about being narrow-minded: you'll never be lonely. — Mort Sahl

I didn't think that anything is beyond humor - not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor. — Mort Sahl

The fact is that you can't have a good relationship with a girl who hasn't settled things with her father. — Mort Sahl

I'd only been in the business three or four years, but I told myself that someday I'd like to be Mort Janklow. — Larry Kirshbaum

If you maintain a consistent political position long enough, you'll eventually be accused of treason. — Mort Sahl

And there are lots of drug companies that are working on cure or medicine. — Mort Kondracke

Greed, however it manifests itself, is always ugly. — Mort Herman

I'm not a liberal, I'm a radical! — Mort Sahl

Above the forest of the parakeets,
A parakeet of parakeets prevails,
A pip of life amid a mort of tails. — Wallace Stevens

Often what I need is even a darker darkness. — Valzhyna Mort

I don't think crucifixion is the answer. I believe in the resurrection. I like that part of the story. — Mort Sahl

I never met a man I didn't like until I met Will Rogers. — Mort Sahl

Paul Bowles said, "The sky hides the night behind it, and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above." Joseph — Mort Castle

Do something!" Norwood told him.
"Do what?" Uncle Mort's face was furious. "Fly up there and get it? You bring your broomstick, Hel? — Gina Damico

Remember that no matter how selfish, how cruel, how unfeeling you have been today, every time you take a breath, you make a flower happy. — Mort Sahl

A Yuppie is someone who believes it's courageous to eat in a restaurant that hasn't been reviewed yet. — Mort Sahl

The bravest thing that men do is love women. — Mort Sahl

We claim we believe in compassion, which is an abstract, and when it's personified we discredit the man — Mort Sahl

And he goes around killing people?" said Mort. He shook his head. "There's no justice."
Death sighed. No, he said ... there's just me. — Terry Pratchett

Then his lids closed slowly over his slightly bloodshot eyes, and Mort Rainey, who had yet to discover what true horror was all about, fell asleep. — Stephen King

New book on Malcolm X says we don't know how he was killed. Want to bring in the FBI. Maybe they were in already. — Mort Sahl

Mort Sahl, while attending a preview of Otto Preminger's film Exodus, stood up and called out, Otto, let my people go! — Mort Sahl

How do you get all those coins? asked Mort.
IN PAIRS. — Terry Pratchett

Massoud is dead, but not the hope ! (Massoud est mort, - Mais pas l'espoir !) — Charles De Leusse

Seven days without laughter makes one weak. — Mort Walker

Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did. — Mort Walker