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Old 12-17-2005, 11:53 AM   #1 (permalink)
Liad Bar-EL
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Jewish humor

Even if you are Catholic, if you live in New York, you're Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you are going to be a goy even if you are Jewish.
Lenny Bruce

I once wanted to become an atheist but I gave up. They have no holidays.
Henny Youngman

Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So, for every ten Jews beating their breasts, God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast beaters. By the time I was five I knew I was that one.
Mel Brooks

Even a secret agent can't lie to a Jewish mother.
Peter Malkin

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Benjamin Disraeli

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then, don't say it.
Sam Levenson

Don't be humble; you are not that great.
Golda Meir

I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I had lost exactly two weeks.
Joe E. Lewis

A spoken contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
Sam Goldwyn

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.
! Jackie Mason

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
Woody Allen

Marriage is a wonderful institution. But who wants to live in an institution
Groucho Marx

A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.
Oscar Levant

Too bad that all the people who know how to run this country are busy driving taxis and cutting hair.
George Burns

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.
Mort Sahl

A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.
Milton Berle

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.
Sam Goldwyn

With the collapse of vaudeville, new talent has no place to stink.
George Burns

When I bore people at a party, they think it is their fault.
Henry Kissinger
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