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A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city. — S.J Perelman

This medal (the National Book Award) together with my American Express card, will identify me worldwide ... except at Bloomingdale's. — S.J Perelman

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas. — S.J Perelman

I was always fascinated by the decision-making process and the managerial process and just business in general. — Ronald Perelman

A lie was something that hadn't happened but might just as well have. — Judith Perelman Rossner

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin .. it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring — S.J Perelman

Any time there's a lot of pressure, it's life and death, you go toward this very dark kind of humor. Soldiers do it. Cops do it. — Ronald Perelman

Santa Barbara people are conservative-not like in L.A., where everybody wears rhinestones on their glasses to show that they own an airplane factory. — S.J Perelman

That's the New York thing, isn't it. People who seem absolutely crazy going around telling you how crazy they used to be before they had therapy. — Judith Perelman Rossner

Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck. — S.J Perelman

"In France," Marcel said with wintry dignity, "accidents occur in the bedroom, not the kitchen." — S.J Perelman

Tomatoes and squash never fail to reach maturity. You can spray them with acid, beat them with sticks and burn them; they love it. — S.J Perelman

In my more pompous moments I like to think of myself as a writer rather than a humorist, but I suppose that's merely the vanity of advancing age. — S.J Perelman

He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it. — S.J Perelman

I'm half Scotch-Irish on both sides, and when I lose my temper-brother, I go. — S.J Perelman

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. — S.J Perelman

Some people spend their lives failing and never notice. — Judith Perelman Rossner

I was the night foreman of a galvanizing factory, which is hot and smelly and dirty and miserable. — Ronald Perelman

I loathe writing. On the other hand I'm a great believer in money. — S.J Perelman

I don't know where we're going or how we'll get there, but when we get there we'll be there - and that's something, even if it's nothing. — S.J Perelman

I know how to control the Universe. Why would I run to get a million, tell me? — Grigori Perelman

I don't want to be on display like an animal in a zoo. — Grigori Perelman

You can be a control freak only when you have weak people around you. — Ronald Perelman

It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated. — Grigori Perelman

If they need my C.V., they don't know my work. — Grigori Perelman

Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums. — Ronald Perelman

I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse. — S.J Perelman

I had a hell of a time getting here, brother," I revealed when we had finished trading insincerities. — S.J Perelman

The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he's given the freedom to starve anywhere. — S.J Perelman

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are. — S.J Perelman

If, at the close of business each evening, I myself can understand what I've written, I feel the day hasn't been totally wasted. — S.J Perelman

I found the pearl of the Orient slightly less exciting than a rainy Sunday evening in Rochester. — S.J Perelman

The past isn't useful until its place in the present is found. — Judith Perelman Rossner

There is such a thing as too much couth. — S.J Perelman

Reality can easily become the current fantasy ... — Judith Perelman Rossner

We old roosters must be cautious. Don't try to outwit your arteries. — S.J Perelman

Clearing up a little misunderstanding is important before things get really messy. — Helen Perelman

The main obligation is to amuse yourself. — S.J Perelman

Everybody understood that if the proof is correct, then no other recognition is needed . — Grigori Perelman

I cannot recall a more engaging passage in fiction, and I've been trying for almost eighteen seconds. — S.J Perelman

The reality is that I surround myself with very smart, very strong people - including my ex-wives. — Ronald Perelman