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• This quote has been credited to multiple sources, including Mark Twain, José Maria de Eça de Queiroz (translated from Portuguese), and "unknown, originated around 1992" (see The Quote Investigator entry "Politicians Are Like Diapers. They Should Be Changed Regularly" and The Big Apple, Entry from December 12, 2009: “Politicians and diapers should both be changed regularly, and for the same reason”). It may have originated in a Reader's Digest joke column. A columnist for the Indiana Gazette quotes a version of this (February 17, 1987) that he says he got from someone who got it from a "Reader's Digest fan."
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Politicians are like nappies, they should be changed regularly and for the same reason.

— Ken Dodd on Politics

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• This quote has been credited to multiple sources, including Mark Twain, José Maria de Eça de Queiroz (translated from Portuguese), and "unknown, originated around 1992" (see The Quote Investigator entry "Politicians Are Like Diapers. They Should Be Changed Regularly" and The Big Apple, Entry from December 12, 2009: “Politicians and diapers should both be changed regularly, and for the same reason”). It may have originated in a Reader's Digest joke column. A columnist for the Indiana Gazette quotes a version of this (February 17, 1987) that he says he got from someone who got it from a "Reader's Digest fan."" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Ken Dodd

About Ken Dodd

Sir Kenneth Arthur Dodd OBE (8 November 1927 - 11 March 2018) was an English comedian and singer and actor, whose recordings have sold over 100 million copies, his buck teeth, frizzy hair, feather duster (or "tickling stick"), and his catchphrases, often playing on the 'tickled' motif, e.g. "How tickled I am!". He works mainly in the music hall tradition, although, in the past, has occasionally appeared in drama, including as Malvolio in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night on stage in Liverpool in 1971; on television in the cameo role of 'The Tollmaster' in the 1987 Doctor Who story Delta and the Bannermen; and as Yorick (in silent flashback) in Kenneth Branagh's film version of Shakespeare's Hamlet in 1996.