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The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

I scrolled on down to the obituaries. I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them will make my day.

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?

I'm not saying that anybody should like me. Give me a chance before you form that opinion.

I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every chance I get I go fishing, or swap stories with fishermen to get the taste of it out of my mouth.

In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.

Suppose by chance you do get picked up. What have you done? You shot a horse; that isn't first degree murder; in fact, it isn't even murder; in fact, I don't know what it is.

Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.

Normally I don't compromise at all but it felt important to give that song the chance to be heard.

Surely few if any readers have come across the sentence they are now reading, and someone who had by chance heard or seen it could not possibly remember such a fact.

Having not had a chance to review the tape and obviously not been in the tunnel, I will take the Wenger amendment on this one for now.

The true meaning of Christmas is actually centuries of gullibility.

the ultimate in longevity is the Christmas fruitcake. It is a cake made during the holidays with fruits that make it heavier than the stove it is cooked in.

Gave a girl herpes in exchange for syphilis, put my LP on your Christmas gift list.

If the Royal Variety Show was put in a matter transportation machine with the Royal Institution Christmas lectures, this is what you'd get.

The irony of Christmas is always upon the poor in heart; the mystery of the solstice is always upon the rest of us.

Congress may be going home for the holidays soon. How can you beat a Christmas gift like that?

Christmas never would have caught on if it had been called Celebrate a Little Jew's Birthday.

A born terror, a rebel without a pause... Ain't never had a good Christmas, so who is Santa Claus?

I find it inspiring to actively choose which traditions to celebrate and also come up with new ideas for traditions of my own.

It's not just an exclamation, but it's a rejection of everything to do with Christmas, with the spirit of Christmas, with gift-giving, with generosity.

Well, you're expelling us aren't you?" said Ron. "Not today, Mr. Weasley." Snape looked as though Christmas had been canceled.

I wasn't Santa in Santa Jr., but I was Santa in Cancel Christmas.