“Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.”

— Emo Philips

As quoted in The Fourth — And By Far The Most Recent — 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said : Many Given Heightened Piquancy by Nineteenth-Century Line Cuts (1990) edited by Robert Byrne, 32

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American comedian 1956

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