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In a banana republic, one might slip on a banana peel but things do work - now and then for the people, albeit inefficiently and unreliably.

When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you; but when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh. So you become the hero rather than the victim of the joke.

I always say, 'If you can't give a reason for the banana peel being in the alley, then don't have the comic slide over it.' Do you understand what I mean? First explain how the banana peel got there quickly. And then there's a reason for all the comedy.

Life is full of banana skins. You slip, you carry on.

My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.

My next book's title is going to be, 'I Have One Foot in the Grave and Another on a Banana Peel.'

To be honest, I think bananas are a pathetic fruit.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

Banana republics are run on cronyism.