I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.


Calvin Trillin

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Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effo...
CALVIN COOLIDGE
Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
Education will not (take the place of persistence); the world is full of educated derelicts. Persist...
CALVIN COOLIDGE
There's more, much more, to Christmas Than candlelight and cheer; It's the spirit of sweet friendshi...
CALVIN COOLIDGE
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common tha...
CALVIN COOLIDGE
One with the law is a majority.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
Advertising is the life of trade.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
As NFL players, we have such a platform to spread the Word of God. And that is an area I don't m...
CALVIN JOHNSON
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded t...
CALVIN COOLIDGE
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common tha...
CALVIN COOLIDGE
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity...
CALVIN COOLIDGE
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effor...
CALVIN COOLIDGE
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for yo...
CALVIN COOLIDGE
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plen...
CALVIN COOLIDGE
The only way to advertise is by not focusing on the product.
CALVIN KLEIN
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living withi...
CALVIN COOLIDGE
Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to y...
CALVIN COOLIDGE
Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.
JOHN CALVIN
Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the wil...
JOHN CALVIN
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of...
JOHN CALVIN
There has been a change in men's attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion; ...
CALVIN KLEIN
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplis...
CALVIN COOLIDGE
For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own exper...
MELVIN CALVIN
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attack...
JOHN CALVIN