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Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.

β€” Henny Youngman
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I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.

β€” Henny Youngman
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If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving.

β€” Henny Youngman
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This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.

β€” Henny Youngman
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I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock.

β€” Henny Youngman
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My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad; but New York City?

β€” Henny Youngman
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My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way.

β€” Henny Youngman
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I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.

β€” Henny Youngman
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Take my wife... Please!

β€” Henny Youngman
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I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.

β€” Henny Youngman
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If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.

β€” Henny Youngman
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You look like a talent scout for a cemetery.

β€” Henny Youngman
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When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.

β€” Henny Youngman
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That was the first time I saw a horse start from a kneeling position!

β€” Henny Youngman
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Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.

β€” Henny Youngman
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When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

β€” Henny Youngman
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The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.

β€” Henny Youngman
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Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.

β€” Henny Youngman
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What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.

β€” Henny Youngman
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When God sneezed, I didn't know what to say.

β€” Henny Youngman
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A Jewish woman had two chickens. One got sick, so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one to help the sick one get well.

β€” Henny Youngman
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My brother was a lifeguard in a car wash.

β€” Henny Youngman
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This is an elegant hotel! Room service has an unlisted number.

β€” Henny Youngman
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I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.

β€” Henny Youngman
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Why don't Jews drink? It interferes with their suffering.

β€” Henny Youngman
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How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put 'page 2.'

β€” Henny Youngman
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This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!

β€” Henny Youngman
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I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet.

β€” Henny Youngman
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If my mother knew I did this for a living, she'd kill me. She thinks I'm selling dope.

β€” Henny Youngman
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You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.

β€” Henny Youngman
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I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

β€” Henny Youngman
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You have a ready wit. Tell me when it's ready.

β€” Henny Youngman
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I know a man who doesn't pay to have his trash taken out. How does he get rid of his trash? He gift wraps it, and puts in into an unlocked car.

β€” Henny Youngman
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

β€” Henry David Thoreau
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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

β€” Henry David Thoreau
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

β€” Henry David Thoreau
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

β€” Henry David Thoreau
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

β€” Henry David Thoreau
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What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

β€” Henry David Thoreau
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

β€” Henry David Thoreau
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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

β€” Henry David Thoreau
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

β€” Henry David Thoreau
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Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

β€” Henry David Thoreau
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Things do not change; we change.

β€” Henry David Thoreau
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Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

β€” Henry David Thoreau
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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

β€” Henry David Thoreau
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The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

β€” Henry David Thoreau
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Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

β€” Henry David Thoreau
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

β€” Henry David Thoreau
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Live the life you've dreamed.

β€” Henry David Thoreau
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