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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.

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Victor Borge
Age: 91 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 3
Died: 2000
Died: December 23
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Stand-Up Comedian
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Børge Rosenbaum
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I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible? and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.
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I normally don't do requests. Unless, of course, I have been asked to do so.
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Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
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The elephant smoked too much.(explaining why the keys of his piano were so yellow)
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Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
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Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats.
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He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
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The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players in the orchestra, and then wonders why nobody loves him.
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Read (this book), smile, enjoy, and if you happen to learn something along the way, don't get upset.
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Well, all's fair in love, war and fooling the critics.
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...the elephant smoked too much.
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Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function.
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Many people have asked me why there are three pedals in these grand pianos. Well the pedal in the middle is there to separate the two other pedals.
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Occasionally, a finger comes up to wipe a tear [of laughter] from the eye... and that's my reward... the rest goes to the government.
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I do not have a single white note on my piano my elephant smoked too much.
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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
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