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Frank Muir

5 February 1920-2 January 1998

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A Golf ball is a white object, dimpled like a bishop's knees, and the size of small mandarin orange or those huge pills which vets blow down the throats of constipated cart-horses.

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Humor is distinguished from win in that wit is a weapon and jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. Humor, by contrast, is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

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Humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

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The Joke is contrasted with wit and humor in that jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority while wit is a weapon and humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

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Marriage is always less romantic than dating. Glances over cocktails that seem to be so sweet don't seem quite so amorous over shredded wheat.

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Muesli is a dish that always looks like the sweepings from a better class table.

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Preface is an intolerable nuisance which stops you from getting to the main event, like a protracted wedding breakfast.

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Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it..

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Wit is a weapon while jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority, and humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.