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«I was well acquainted with the gag that if you looked like your passport picture, you needed a trip. I was unprepared for the preponderance of thuglike pictures which I found in the course of processing passports.»
«Gags die, humor doesn't»
Author: Jack Benny (Entertainer) | About: Humor, Jokes | Keywords: gag, Gags
«In the end, everything is a gag.»
«But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.»
Author: John Updike | About: Biography, Poetry | Keywords: biography, gag, gagged, Gags, phrases, verse
«An epigrams is a gag that's played Carnegie Hall»
«If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn't open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming.»
«Through desire, people are cast into the womb and reborn. Through desire, they taste the sweet and sour flavors. Bound by desire, they are led on, beaten and struck on their faces and mouths. Bound and gagged and assaulted by evil, they are released only through the Name, through the Guru's Teachings.»
«Those who have not served the True Guru - why did they even bother to come into the world? They are bound and gagged and beaten at Death's door, but no one hears their shrieks and cries.»
«O Nanak, she commits sins for their sake; she shall go, bound and gagged, to the City of Death.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib | Keywords: gag, gagged
«Bound and gagged at Death's Door, One is cruelly beaten, and punished in the Court of the Lord»

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