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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

The 2,000 Year Old Man (1960)

Dark Helmet : So, Lone Star, now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb.

Spaceballs (1987)

If they [presidents] can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

The 2,000 Year Old Man (1960)

Sheriff of Rotingham King illegal forest to pig wild kill in it a is!

Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)

Dark Helmet [after everyone on the bridge announces that their last name is "Asshole."]: I knew it, I'm surrounded by Assholes.

Spaceballs (1987)

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Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer.

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A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary.

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The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel– a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Karl Barth The Harper Book of Quotations (1993)

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