A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.
--Art Buchwald
Americans are a broad-minded people. They'll accept the fact that a person can be alcoholic, a dope fiend or a wife-beater, but if a man doesn't drive a car, everybody thinks that something is wrong with him.
--Art Buchwald
Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week.
--Art Buchwald
As the economy gets better, everything else gets worse.
--Art Buchwald
Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.
--Art Buchwald
Don't commit suicide, because you might change your mind two weeks later.
--Art Buchwald
Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.
--Art Buchwald
Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?
--Art Buchwald
I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.
--Art Buchwald
I have no idea where I'm going but here's the real question: What am I doing here in the first place?
--Art Buchwald
I worship the very quicksand he (Nixon) walks on.
--Art Buchwald
If you can make people laugh, you can get all the love you want.
--Art Buchwald
If you have to go, the way you go is a big deal.
--Art Buchwald
If you're hung up on nostalgia, just think of today as yesterday and go out and have one hell of a time.
--Art Buchwald
In this country, when you attack the Establishment, they don't put you in jail or a mental institution. They do something worse. They make you a member of the Establishment.
--Art Buchwald
It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.
--Art Buchwald
Put yourself in Hamlet's shoes. Suppose you were a prince, and you came back from college to discover that your uncle had murdered your father and married your mother, and you fell in love with a beautiful girl and mistakenly murdered her father, and then she went crazy and drowned herself. What would you do? Go back for a masters?
--Art Buchwald
Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.
--Art Buchwald
Television has a real problem. They have no page two.
--Art Buchwald
The best things in life aren't things.
--Art Buchwald
This is not an easy time for humorists because the government is far funnier than we are.
--Art Buchwald
Whether it's the best of times, or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.
--Art Buchwald
You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
--Art Buchwald
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