Arthur Baer Quotes

United States, Journalist
January 9, 1886 – March, 17, 1969.

Arthur "Bugs" Baer (January 9, 1886 – May 17, 1969) was an American journalist and humorist. Baer was prominent in the New York City journalism and entertainment scene for many years and worked as a sports journalist and cartoonist. Called by The New York Times "one of the country's best-known humorists," he wrote the humor column "One Word Led to Another" for the King Features Syndicate (the Hearst papers).

Also known as Humorist

It was so quiet, you could hear a pun drop.

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Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.

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- Past
- Wolf

She's generous to a fault - if it's her own.

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- She
If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.

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Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.

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- Horse
If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.

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The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness.

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She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on.

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- She
- Food

A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.

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- Good
- Fence
It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.

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- Law
- Justice
It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.

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A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.

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- High
- Library
His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours.

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- Bad
- Sleep
- Insomnia
A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.

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His head was full of larceny, but his feet were honest.

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