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Mort Sahl Quotes

1927–2021 Canada

Mort Lyon Sahl (May 11, 1927 – October 26, 2021) was a Canadian-born American comedian, actor, and social satirist, considered the first modern stand-up comedian since Will Rogers. Sahl pioneered a style of social satire that pokes fun at political and current event topics using improvised monologues and only a newspaper as a prop.

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If you maintain a consistent political position long enough, you will eventually be accused of treason.

The bravest thing that men do is love women.

Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.

Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.

In the forties, to get a girl you had to be a GI or a jock. In the fifties, to get a girl you had to be Jewish. In the sixties, to get a girl you had to be black. In the seventies, to get a girl you've got to be a girl.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mort Sahl (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.