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Richard J. Needham [1912-1996] Canadian
Rank: 104
Cartoonist, Columnist


Richard J. Needham was a Canadian humour columnist for The Globe and Mail.
Many of his columns were collected in a variety of books, including The Garden of Needham and Needham's Inferno, which won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour in 1967.


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The person who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.
101
You don't marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as the result of being.
102
Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.
103
Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong.
104
I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.
105
When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem.
106
For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done.
107
The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal.
108

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