Famous quotes containing the words funniest, living and/or american:
“My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Milton! thou should’st be living at this hour:
England hath need of thee:”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“There exists in a great part of the Northern people a gloomy diffidence in the moral character of the government. On the broaching of this question, as general expression of despondency, of disbelief that any good will accrue from a remonstrance on an act of fraud and robbery, appeared in those men to whom we naturally turn for aid and counsel. Will the American government steal? Will it lie? Will it kill?—We ask triumphantly.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)