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A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.

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George Mikes
Age: 75 †
Born: 1912
Born: February 15
Died: 1987
Died: August 30
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I said in my earlier book, and find no reason for retracting my statement, that the famous Jewish sense of humour got lost in transit to Israel.
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English humor resembles the Loch Ness Monster in that both are famous but there is a strong suspicion that neither exists.
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Bargaining is a repulsive habit compromise is one of the highest human virtues - the difference between the two being that the first is practised on the Continent, the latter in Great Britain.
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The poor Americans are so busy defending the rights of Hindus in Pakistan, Moslems in India, Jews in Palestine, Koreans in Japan, Italians in Yugoslavia and Hungarians in Czechoslovakia that they simply cannot give a thought to Negroes in the United States.
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It is great fun dying in the United States of America. It is great fun first of all for the undertakers who make a wonderful living out of it but also for the deceased who suddenly becomes the centre of attention and fuss.
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To have created a Welfare State was a great achievement but we must go on to create a Welfare Planet.
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Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language.
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Humility is one of the most repulsive virtues, nearly always false.
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'I don't say a Zionist must be insane,' said President Weizmann, 'but it helps if he is.'
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Tel-Aviv airport is still the only airport in the world where each passenger is met by ten relatives.
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Jokes are better than war. Even the most aggressive jokes are better than the least aggressive wars. Even the longest jokes are better than the shortest wars.
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The country has always been governed by a coalition but today it is governed by a so-called Grand Coalition which is a more polite word for all and sundry.
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When a wicked and unworthy subject annoyed the Sultan of Turkey or the Czar of Russia, he had his head cut of without much ceremony but when the same happened in England, the monarch declared : We are not amused.
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Once you start buying first aid kits you start having accidents.
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The man who is not afraid of danger is not a hero, but a psychopath.
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People on the Continent either tell you the truth or lie in England they hardly ever lie, but they would not dream of telling you the truth.
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On the Continent people have good food in England people have good table manners.
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The Art of Conversation could not die in Australia it never lived. Television did not kill it there was nothing there to kill.
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They (Americans) have their national game, baseball - which is cricket played with a strong American accent - and they have a national language, entirely their own, unlike any other language spoken on the earth.
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To be extravagant you need money. True. But you do not need your own money.
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