It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

—Jackie Mason

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About Jackie Mason

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Jackie Mason (born Yacov Moshe Maza; Yiddish: יעקב משה מזא"ה; June 9, 1931 – July 24, 2021) was an American stand-up comedian and actor.

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Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.

—Jackie Mason

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.

—Jackie Mason

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

—Jackie Mason

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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

—Francis Bacon

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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.

—Fran Lebowitz

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Ed felt faint. Milk shake, as it turned out, was much less handy in your veins then, say, oxygen.

—Francine Pascal in Sam

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Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every obnoxious supervisor (or employee), every illness, every loss, every moment of joy or depression, every addiction, every piece of garbage, every breath.

—Charlotte Joko Beck

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Being considered or labeled mentally disordered—abnormal, crazy, mad, psychotic, sick, it matters not what variant is used—is the most profoundly discrediting classification that can be imposed on a person today. Mental illness casts the "patient" out of our social order just as surely as heresy cast the "witch" out of medieval society. That, indeed, is the very purpose of stigma terms.

—Thomas Szasz

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