Quotes by Alan Coren - Page 1

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.
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Life
Purpose
Purpose Of Life
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Being a personality is not the same thing as having a personality.
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Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea.
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Doe
Land
Sea
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Enjoy your life today because yesterday had gone and tomorrow may never come
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Beautiful
Tomorrow May Never Come
Yesterday
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Malta is the only country in the world where the local delicacy is the bread.
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Bread
Country
World
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All I know of birds to this date is that sparrows are the ones that are not pigeons.
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Bird
Pigeons
Sparrows
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10.30 Newsnight: What Are The Chances Of World War Three Breaking Out After You Have Gone To Bed?
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War
Bed
Three
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I wonder sometimes if manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.
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Fool
Items
Payroll
Wonder
Manufacturers
Test
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Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
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Freedom
Democracies Have
Democracy
Thinking
Want
Think
After
Choosing
Consists
Dictators
Hear
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I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.
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Fools Day
Funny Inspirational
Humorous
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The role of humour is to make people fall down and writhe on the Axminster, and that is the top and bottom of it.
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Funny
Humor
Fall
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Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.
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Interesting
People
Should Have
Standing
Television
Corner
Room
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Jacob is a German Shepherd. (I have never understood why they aren't called German Sheepdogs. What do the Germans call shepherds?)
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Dog
Jacob
Shepherds
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A humorist tells himself every morning, "I hope it's going to be a rough day." When things are going well, it's much harder to make the right jokes.
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Morning
Harder
Rough Day
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Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.
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Funny
Humor
Chocolate
Clock
Order
Products
Snow
Tourists
Cuckoo
Melt
National
Solely
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The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.
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Accidents
Designation
Mean
Policy
Provocative
Insurance
Likely
Policies
Roughly
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There are many mysteries in old age but the greatest, surely, is this: in those adverts for walk-in bathtubs, why doesn't all the water gush out when you get in?
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Age
Mystery
Water
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Having lost the last war, they are currently enjoying a "Wirtschaftswunder," which can be briefly translated as "The best way to own a Mercedes is to build one."
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War
Lasts
Way
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Disneyworld... is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept.
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Historical
Magic
Vision
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The word "souvenir" has, of course, slightly extended itself in meaning until it now denotes almost anything either breakable or useless; but even today, ninety per cent of the items covered by the word are forgettable objects in which cigarettes can be left to go stale.
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Cigarette
Today
Useless
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Ethnically, the Germans are Teutonic... being made up of Vandals, Gepidae, and Goths, all of whom emigrated - south from Sweden in about 500 BC; why they emigrated is not exactly clear, but many scholars believe it was because they saw the way Sweden was going, i.e. neutral.
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Believe
Sweden
Way
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Can anything match that first fine discovery of the telephone and all it stood for? That first realization that, contained within ten simple digits, lay the infinitely possible? Out there ... lay six billion ears, all the people in the world available for contact and mystery and insult, unable to resist the beckoning of one small and villainous forefinger.
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Discovery
People
Simple
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In the days when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, I know one boy who won't be sweating. I intend to raise my coffin-lid briskly, throw a few things into an overnight bag, and, whistling something appropriate, prepare to meet my Maker.
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Men
Boys
Strong
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Sadly, as with so much about history's heroes, it's the spotting of potential fame that's the difficulty, whether it's publishing their poems, hanging their paintings, or buying their old underwear. Think of the great men whose lives passed in penury and hacking coughs due to public unawareness that their littlest possession would end up at Sothebys or the basement at Fort Knox.
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Men
Hero
Thinking
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English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit. ... Inside this hothouse, huge lascivious orchids slide sensuously up the sweating windows, passion-flowers cross-pollinate in wild heliotrope abandon, lotuses writhe with poppies in the sweet warm beds, kumquats ripen, open and plop flatly to the floor-and outside, in a neat, trimly-hoed kitchen-garden, English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
Alan Coren / Writer
Orchids
Flower
Passion
Sweet
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