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- #...poetry, like chastity, can be carried too far. -- Mark Twain
- #A bird in the bush usually has a friend in there with him.
- #A bird in the hand is safer than one overhead.
- #A bird in the hand makes it hard to blow your nose.
- #A boss with no humor is like a job that's no fun.
- #A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
- #A dean is to a faculty as a hydrant is to a dog. -- Alfred Kahn
- #A fail-safe circuit will destroy others. -- Klipstein
- #A fool and his money stabilize the economy.
- #A home where the buffalo roam... is messy.
- #A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance from Mom.
- #A kid'll eat the middle of an Oreo, eventually.
- #A lack of leadership is no substitute for inaction.
- #A man without a woman is like a fish without gills.
- #A penny saved is an economic breakthrough.
- #A poet who reads his verse in public might have other nasty habits.
- #A quarter ounce of chocolate equals four pounds of fat.
- #A sadist is a masochist who follows the Golden Rule.
- #A small town that cannot support one lawyer can always support two.
- #A virtuoso is a musician with real high morals.
- #A wedding is a funeral where a man smells his own flowers.
- #A young child is a noise with dirt on it.
- #Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy.
- #About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard.
- #About the only thing on a farm that has an easy time is the dog.
- #Absence makes the heart grow fonder... for someone else.
- #Academy: A modern school where football is taught.
- #Acting: An art that consists of keeping the audience from coughing.
- #Actors will happen in the best-regulated families.
- #Advanced design: Upper management doesn't understand it.
- #Adventure is a sign of incompetence. -- Amundsen
- #Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill.
- #Alcoholic: Someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
- #Alimony and bribes will engage a large share of your wealth.
- #All generalizations are useless, including this one.
- #All new: Parts not interchangeable with previous model.
- #All signs in metric for the next 20 miles. -- road sign in Ohio
- #All the men on my staff can type. -- Bella Abzug
- #All things are possible, except skiing through a revolving door.
- #All things are possible, except skiing thru a revolving door.
- #Always leave room to add an explanation if it doesn't work out.
- #Always remember that you are unique... just like everyone else.
- #Ambiguity: Telling the truth when you don't mean to.
- #Amnesia used to be my favorite word, but then I forgot it.
- #An apple a day keeps the doctor away... if it is aimed well.
- #An apple a day makes 365 apples a year. -- Tom Weller
- #An apple every eight hours keeps three doctors away.
- #An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible.
- #An informed citizen panics more intelligently.
- #An object at rest will always be in the wrong place.
- #An object in motion will always be headed in the wrong direction.
- #An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys. -- Van Roy
- #Antonym: The opposite of the word you are trying to think of.
- #Any country with "democratic" in the title isn't. -- Murray
- #Any landing you can walk away from is a good one.
- #Any simple idea will be worded in the most complicated way. -- Malek
- #Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry.
- #Apart from the unknowns, everything is obvious. -- James Hogan
- #Appearances are not everything; it just looks like they are.
- #Archeology is the only profession where your future lies in ruins.
- #Arguments with furniture are rarely productive.
- #Art is anything you can get away with. -- Marshall McLuhan
- #As long as the answer is right, who cares if the question is wrong?
- #As long as the answer is right, who cares if the question is wrong?
- #Bachelor: A guy who is footloose and fiancee-free.
- #Bachelor: A man who never made the same mistake once.
- #Ban the bomb. Save the world for conventional warfare.
- #Barium: What doctors do when treatment fails.
- #Baseball is to football as Beethoven is to rap. -- Patrick Mott
- #Be braver -- you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- #Be content with what you've got, but be sure you've got plenty.
- #Behaviorism is the art of pulling habits out of rats. -- O'Neill
- #Being popular is important. Otherwise people might not like you.
- #Benjamin Franklin produced electricity by rubbing cats backwards.
- #Best gift for the person who has everything: A burglar alarm.
- #Bigamy is having one spouse too many. Monogamy is the same.
- #Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
- #Bore: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
- #Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
- #Brigands ask for your money or your life; spouses require them both.
- #Broad-mindedness: The result of flattening high-mindedness out.
- #Bureaucracy: A method of transforming energy into solid waste.
- #Bureaucrat: A person who cuts red tape sideways. -- J. McCabe
- #Business will be either better or worse. -- Calvin Coolidge
- #But officer, I stopped for the last one, and it was green!
- #Calling a person a runner-up is a polite way of saying they lost.
- #Capitalism is based on the assumption that you can win.
- #Cauterize: Made eye contact with a woman.
- #Charity: A thing that begins at home and usually stays there.
- #Chemicals: Noxious substances from which modern foods are made.
- #Circle: A line that meets its other end without ending.
- #College isn't the place to go for ideas. -- Hellen Keller
- #College: The fountains of knowledge, where everyone goes to drink.
- #Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. -- Peter Ustinov
- #Committees do harm merely by existing. -- Freeman Dyson
- #Computers are useless; they can only give answers. -- Picasso
- #Conscience: The thing that hurts when everything else feels great.
- #Conservative: A Liberal who has just been mugged.
- #Conservative: One who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
- #Consultation: Medical term meaning "to share the wealth."
- #Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.
- #Could you be a poster child for retroactive birth control?
- #Death has been proven to be 99% fatal to laboratory rats.
- #Death is God's way of telling you not to be such a wise guy.
- #Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired. -- R. Geis
- #Death is the greatest kick of all. That's why they save it for last.
- #Death: To stop sinning suddenly. -- Elbert Hubbard
- #Democracy: The worship of Jackals by Jackasses. -- H. L. Mencken
- #Design simplicity: Developed on a shoe-string budget.
- #Dinner is ready when the smoke alarm goes off.
- #Diplomacy: The art of letting someone else have your way.
- #Diplomacy: The art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock.
- #Disco is to music what Etch-A-Sketch is to art.
- #Distinctive: A different color or shape than our competitors.
- #Do married people live longer, or does it just seem that way?
- #Do not merely believe in miracles; rely on them. -- Finagle
- #Don't be humble ... you're not that great. -- Golda Meir
- #Don't be humble... you're not that great. -- Golda Meir
- #Don't force it, get a larger hammer. -- Anthony
- #Don't get stuck in a closet; wear yourself out.
- #Don't give someone a piece of your mind unless you can afford it.
- #Don't hit a man when he's down -- kick him; it's easier.
- #Don't lend people money... it gives them amnesia.
- #Don't let your mind wander -- it's too little to be let out alone.
- #Don't mind him; politicians always sound like that.
- #Don't say yes until I finish talking. -- Darryl Zanuck
- #Don't steal. The government hates competition.
- #Don't sweat the petty things -- just pet the sweaty things.
- #Don't tell any big lies today. Small ones can be just as effective.
- #Don't undertake vast projects with half-vast ideas.
- #Don't use no double negatives, not never.
- #Don't you have anything more useful you could be doing?
- #Drive carefully. We are overstocked. -- sign in junkyard
- #Dying is easy. Comedy is difficult.
- #Earn cash in your spare time -- blackmail your friends
- #Eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow it might be illegal.
- #Eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow they may make it illegal.
- #Education helps earning capacity. Ask any college professor.
- #Egotism: Doing a crossword puzzle with a pen.
- #Either that wallpaper goes, or I do. -- last words of Oscar Wilde
- #Elections come and go, but politics are always with us.
- #Electricity comes from electrons; morality comes from morons.
- #Eliminate government waste, no matter how much it costs!
- #Every creature has within him the wild, uncontrollable urge to punt.
- #Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
- #Everything in moderation, including moderation.
- #Everything is actually everything else, just recycled.
- #Everything is always done for the wrong reasons. -- O'Brian
- #Everything put together falls apart sooner or later. -- Simon
- #Everything worthwhile is mandatory, prohibited, or taxed.
- #Everything you know is wrong, but you can be straightened out.
- #Exceptions prove the rule, and wreck the budget. -- Miller
- #Exclusive: We are the only ones who have the documentation.
- #Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else.
- #Famous last words: Don't worry, I can handle it.
- #Federal Reserve: A reserve where federal employees hunt wild game.
- #Fidelity: A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
- #Field tested: Manufacturing doesn't have a test system.
- #Foolproof operation: No provision for adjustment.
- #Fools rush in -- and get the best seats in the house.
- #Form follows function, and often obliterates it.
- #Fortune favors the lucky. -- Tom Weller
- #Fossil flowers come from the Petrified Florist.
- #Four wheel drive: Lets you get more stuck, further from help.
- #Freedom is just chaos, with better lighting. -- Alan Foster
- #Friends: People who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.
- #Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway.
- #Genius is the infinite capacity for picking brains.
- #Gentleman: Knows how to play the bagpipes, but doesn't.
- #Give a skeptic an inch and he'll measure it.
- #Give me a sleeping pill and tell me your troubles.
- #Give me chastity and continence, but not just now. -- St. Augustine
- #Give your very best today. Heaven knows it is little enough.
- #Go away. I'm all right. -- last words of H. G. Wells
- #Go to Heaven for the climate but Hell for the company. -- Mark Twain
- #God gives us relatives; thank goodness we can chose our friends.
- #God, I ask for patience -- and I want it right now!
- #Good day for a change of scene. Repaper the bedroom wall.
- #Good sopranos and tenors have resonance -- where others have brains.
- #Graft: An illegal means of uniting trees to make money.
- #Gravity: What you get when you eat too much and too fast.
- #Grub first, then ethics. -- Bertolt Brecht
- #Had there been an actual emergency, you would no longer be here.
- #Hangover: The wrath of grapes.
- #Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. -- Ogden Nash
- #Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
- #Having children will turn you into your parents.
- #He has the heart of a little child... it's in a jar on his desk.
- #He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
- #He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless dead.
- #He who has a shady past knows that nice guys finish last.
- #He who hesitates is a damned fool. -- Mae West
- #He who hesitates is probably right.
- #He who is content with his lot probably has a lot.
- #He who laughs last didn't get the joke.
- #He who shouts the loudest has the floor. -- Swipple
- #Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
- #Heat expands: In the summer the days are longer.
- #Help stamp out and abolish redundancy.
- #History does not repeat itself; historians merely repeat each other.
- #Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
- #How come wrong numbers are never busy?
- #How many weeks are there in a light year?
- #How much sin can you get away with and still go to heaven?
- #How sharper than a hound's tooth it is to have a thankless serpent.
- #How to regain your virginity: Reverse the process until it returns.
- #How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.
- #Human beings were created by water to transport it uphill.
- #Humor is the best antidote to reality.
- #I am a Libra. Libras don't believe in astrology. -- Al Hibbs
- #I am going to live forever, or die trying! -- Spider Robinson
- #I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat. -- Will Rogers
- #I bet you have never seen a plumber bite his nails.
- #I could not possibly fail to disagree with you less.
- #I do desire we may be better strangers. -- Shakespeare
- #I do not fear computers.. I fear the lack of them. -- Isaac Asimov
- #I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. -- Mae West
- #I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- #I hate quotations. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- #I have a perfect cure for a sore throat. Cut it. -- Alfred Hitchcock
- #I have been in more laps than a napkin. -- Mae West
- #I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest
- #I know on which side my bread is buttered. -- John Heywood
- #I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
- #I love mankind... It's people I hate. -- Schulz
- #I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. -- Nash
- #I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. -- Mae West
- #I used to be indecisive; now I'm not sure. -- GRAFFITI
- #I used to get high on life, but lately I have built up a resistance.
- #I will always love the false image I had of you.
- #I will meet you at the corner of Walk and Don't Walk.
- #I would give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
- #I would like to help you out. Which way did you come in?
- #I'm in Pittsburgh. Why am I here? -- Harold Urey
- #Ice cream cures all ills. Temporarily. -- Seleznick
- #If God is perfect, why did he create discontinuous functions?
- #If I had any humility I would be perfect. -- Ted Turner
- #If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will. -- Silverman
- #If a straight line fit is required, obtain only two data points.
- #If at first you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.
- #If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
- #If at first you don't succeed, quit; don't be a nut about success.
- #If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.
- #If at first you don't succeed, your successor will. -- Lord Birdwood
- #If entropy is increasing, where is it coming from?
- #If flattery gets you nowhere, try bribery.
- #If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people?
- #If it is worth doing, it is worth doing for money.
- #If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.
- #If it pours before seven, it has rained by eleven.
- #If it wasn't for Newton, we wouldn't have to eat bruised apples.
- #If it wasn't for lawyers, we wouldn't need them.
- #If it wasn't for muscle spasms, I wouldn't get any exercise at all.
- #If little else, the brain is an educational toy. -- Tom Robbins
- #If one hundred people do a foolish thing, one will become injured.
- #If only I could be respected without having to be respectable.
- #If reproducibility might be a problem, conduct the test only once.
- #If sound can't travel in a vacuum, why are vacuum cleaners so noisy?
- #If the ship is not sinking, the rats must be the ones not leaving.
- #If there is light at the end of the tunnel... ORDER MORE TUNNEL.
- #If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex? -- Art Hoppe
- #If this saying did not exist, somebody would have invented it.
- #If time heals all wounds, how come bellybuttons don't fill in?
- #If you are a fatalist, what can you do about it? -- Ann Edwards-Duff
- #If you are seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
- #If you can lead it to water and force it to drink, it isn't a horse.
- #If you can survive death, you can probably survive anything.
- #If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.
- #If you cannot convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S Truman
- #If you do a job too well, you will get stuck with it. -- Slous
- #If you do something right once, someone will ask you to do it again.
- #If you don't care where you are, then you aren't lost.
- #If you don't know what you're doing, do it neatly.
- #If you have half a mind to watch TV, that is enough.
- #If you have kleptomania, you can always take something for it.
- #If you have to ask how much it is, you can't afford it.
- #If you mess with a thing long enough, it will break. -- Schmidt
- #If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. --James Goldsmith
- #If you put it off long enough, it might go away.
- #If you think before you speak, the other guy gets his joke in first.
- #If you want to know how old a man is, ask his brother-in-law.
- #If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.
- #If you were to ask me this question, what would my answer be?
- #If your parents didn't have any children, neither will you.
- #Ignorance: When you don't know anything, and someone else finds out.
- #Ill-bred children always display their pest manners.
- #Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery. -- Jack Paar
- #In an orderly world, there is always a place for the disorderly.
- #In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Butler
- #In order to get a loan you must first prove you don't need it.
- #In this world, truth can wait; she is used to it.
- #Insanity is inherited; you get it from your kids!
- #Institute: An archaic school where football is not taught.
- #Irrationality is the square root of all evil. -- Douglas Hofstadter
- #It ain't loafing unless they can prove it. -- Dick Brown
- #It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations.
- #It doesn't matter whether you win or lose -- until you lose.
- #It is bad luck to be superstitious. -- Andrew Mathis
- #It is better to be on penicillin than never to have loved at all.
- #It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.
- #It is better to have loved and lost -- much better.
- #It is better to have loved and lost than just to have lost.
- #It is difficult to soar with eagles when you work with turkeys.
- #It is kind of fun to do the impossible. -- Walt Disney
- #It is more than magnificent -- it is mediocre. -- Sam Goldwyn
- #It is not a good omen when goldfish commit suicide.
- #It is not an optical illusion, it just looks like one. -- Phil White
- #It seems to make an auto driver mad if she misses you.
- #It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.
- #It was a brave man that ate the first oyster.
- #It's not hard to meet expenses; they are everywhere.
- #Job placement: Telling your boss what he can do with your job.
- #Journalism is literature in a hurry. -- Matthew Arnold
- #Keep America beautiful. Swallow your beer cans.
- #Keep stress out of your life. Give it to others instead.
- #Know what I hate most? Rhetorical questions. -- Henry Camp
- #Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
- #Laugh, and the world ignores you. Crying doesn't help either.
- #Lead me not into temptation. I can find it myself.
- #Learning at some schools is like drinking from a firehose.
- #Let him who takes the Plunge remember to return it by Tuesday.
- #Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
- #Liberal: A Conservative who has just been arrested.
- #Life is a game of bridge -- and you have just been finessed.
- #Life is complex. It has real and imaginary parts.
- #Life is difficult because it is non-linear.
- #Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.
- #Life is like a fountain... I will tell you how when I figure it out.
- #Life is like a maze in which you try to avoid the exit.
- #Life: A brief interlude between nothingness and eternity.
- #Little things come in small packages. -- Tom Weller
- #Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse.
- #Living on Earth includes an annual free trip around the Sun.
- #Logic is a little bird, sitting in a tree, that smells AWFUL.
- #Logic is a means of CONFIDENTLY being wrong.
- #Love does not make the world go around, just up and down a bit.
- #Love is Grand... Divorce is Twenty Grand.
- #Love is being stupid together.
- #Love means having to say you're sorry every five minutes.
- #Love means nothing to a tennis player.
- #Love thy neighbor: Tune thy piano.
- #Love your enemies. It will make them crazy.
- #Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.
- #Love: The only game that is not called on account of darkness.
- #Maintain thy airspeed, lest the ground rise up and smite thee.
- #Majority: That quality that distinguishes a crime from a law.
- #Make a firm decision now... you can always change it later.
- #Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to. -- Mark Twain
- #Man who falls in blast furnace is certain to feel overwrought.
- #Mankind has never reconciled itself to the ten commandments.
- #Many are called, but few are at their desks.
- #Many quite distinguished people have bodies similar to yours.
- #Marriage is a rest period between romances.
- #Marriage is a trip between Niagra Falls and Reno.
- #Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence.
- #Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. -- Voltaire
- #Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly
- #Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value.
- #Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.
- #May you die in bed at 95, shot by a jealous spouse.
- #May you have many friends and very few living enemies.
- #Measure with a micrometer; mark with chalk; cut with an axe. -- Ray
- #Men seldom show dimples to girls who have pimples.
- #Michelangelo would have made better time with a roller.
- #Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. -- Groucho Marx
- #Millihelen: The amount of beauty required to launch one ship.
- #Miracles are great, but they are so damned unpredictable.
- #Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings.
- #Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. -- J. K. Galbraith
- #Modesty: Being comfortable that others will discover your greatness.
- #Momentum: What you give a person when they are going away.
- #Money can't buy happiness, but it lets you be miserable in comfort.
- #Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
- #Money is the root of all evil, and man needs roots.
- #Monotony: The practice of having only one spouse at a time.
- #Mother is the invention of necessity.
- #Mother told me to be good, but she has been wrong before.
- #Mountain range: A cooking stove used at high altitudes.
- #Mummy: An Egyptian who was pressed for time.
- #Music sung by two people at the same time is called a duel.
- #My opinions might have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
- #Mysticism is based on the assumption that you can quit the game.
- #Narcolepulacy: The contagious action of yawning.
- #Neckties strangle clear thinking. -- Lin Yutang
- #Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow.
- #Never eat anything bigger than your head. -- Kliban
- #Never have any children, only grandchildren. -- Gore Vidal
- #Never hit a man with glasses. Hit him with a baseball bat.
- #Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together.
- #Never sleep with anyone crazier than yourself. -- Hartley
- #New: Different color from previous model.
- #No maintenance: Impossible to fix.
- #No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.
- #No matter what goes wrong, there's always someone who knew it would.
- #No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.
- #No one gets too old to learn a new way of being stupid.
- #No problem is so large it can't be fit in somewhere.
- #Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.
- #Nobody ever has a reservation on a plane that leaves from Gate 1.
- #Nobody knows the trouble I have been.
- #Nondeterminism means never having to say you are wrong.
- #Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be.
- #Nothing can be done in one trip. -- Snider
- #Nothing increases your golf score like witnesses.
- #Nothing is ever a total loss; it can always serve as a bad example.
- #Nothing is finished until the paperwork is done.
- #Nothing is impossible or impassable if you have enough nails.
- #Nothing recedes like success. -- Walter Winchell
- #Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. -- Mark Twain
- #Now and then an innocent person is sent to the Legislature.
- #Nuclear war would really set back cable. -- Ted Turner
- #Nudists are people who wear one-button suits.
- #Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable. -- Plato
- #Of course I am happily married -- she's happy, and I'm married.
- #Often it is fatal to live too long. -- Racine
- #Old MacDonald had an agricultural real estate tax abatement.
- #Omniscience: Talking only about things you know about.
- #Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Thrice is enemy action.
- #Once upon a time, charity was a virtue and not an organization.
- #One Bell System -- it sometimes works.
- #One child is not enough, but two children are far too many.
- #One good turn usually gets most of the blanket.
- #One nice thing about egotists: They don't talk about other people.
- #One size fits all: Doesn't fit anyone.
- #One thing leads to another, and usually does.
- #Only adults have difficulty with childproof caps.
- #Only fools are quoted. -- Anonymous
- #Only through hard work and perseverance can one truly suffer.
- #Only two groups of people fall for flattery: Men and women.
- #Opportunity always knocks at the least opportune moment. -- Ducharme
- #Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing. -- Roy Ash
- #Out of the mouths of babes does often come cereal.
- #Outpatient: A person who has fainted.
- #Paper is always strongest at the perforations. -- Corry
- #Parallel lines never meet unless you bend one or both of them.
- #Parallel lines never meet, unless you bend one or both of them.
- #Paranoia: A healthy understanding of the nature of the universe.
- #Paranoid schizophrenics outnumber their enemies at least two to one.
- #People have one thing in common: They are all different.
- #People usually get what's coming to them... unless it was mailed.
- #People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw parties.
- #People who take cat naps usually don't sleep in a cat's cradle.
- #People will buy anything that is one to a customer. -- Lewis
- #Perfect guest: One who makes his host feel at home.
- #Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.
- #Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
- #Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth. -- Don Marquis
- #Pity the poor egg; it only gets laid once.
- #Politics consists of deals and ideals.
- #Politics: The art of turning influence into affluence.
- #Positive: Being mistaken at the top of your voice.
- #Pound for pound, the amoeba is the most vicious animal on Earth.
- #Power means not having to respond.
- #Predestination was doomed from the start.
- #Preudhomme's Law of Window Cleaning: It's on the other side.
- #Pro is to con as progress is to Congress.
- #Proctologist: A doctor who puts in a hard day at the orifice.
- #Professor: One who talks in someone else's sleep.
- #Proofreading is more effective after publication. -- Barker
- #Proximity isn't everything, but it comes close.
- #Question Authority... and the Authorities will question you!
- #Quinine is the bark of a tree; canine is the bark of a dog.
- #Quoting one is plagiarism. Quoting many is research.
- #Rainy days and automatic weapons always get me down.
- #Reality is for people who lack imagination.
- #Reality is just a convenient measure of complexity. -- Alvy Smith
- #Refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
- #Reputation: What others are not thinking about you.
- #Schroedinger's cat might have died for your sins.
- #Science is material. Religion is immaterial.
- #Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
- #Seeing is deceiving. It's eating that's believing. -- James Thurber
- #Seek simplicity -- and distrust it. -- Alfred Whitehead
- #Serendipity: The process by which human knowledge is advanced.
- #Serving coffee on aircraft causes turbulence.
- #Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing.
- #She walks as if balancing the family tree on her nose.
- #Silly is a state of mind. Stupid is a way of life.
- #Socialism is based on the assumption that you can break even.
- #Some is good, more is better, too much is just right.
- #Some men are discovered; others are found out.
- #Some people would not recognize subtlety if it hit them on the head.
- #Some prefer the happiness of pursuit to the pursuit of happiness.
- #Someday you will get your big chance -- or have you already had it?
- #Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. -- Sigmund Freud
- #Sorry, but my karma just ran over your dogma.
- #Spare no expense to save money on this one. -- Samuel Goldwyn
- #Stealing a rhinoceros should not be attempted lightly.
- #Stock item: We shipped it once before and we can do it again.
- #Stop committing useless mistakes. Make your next mistake count!
- #Stupid: Losing $25 on the game, and $25 more on the instant replay.
- #Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.
- #Sweater: A garment worn by a child when his parent feels chilly.
- #System-independent: Works equally poorly on all systems.
- #TV is called a medium because it is neither rare nor well done.
- #Tact: The unsaid part of what you are thinking.
- #Take everything in stride. Trample anyone who gets in your way.
- #Teamwork is essential; it allows you to blame someone else.
- #Technique: A trick that works.
- #Teenagers are two year olds with hormones and wheels. -- Will Limon
- #Terrorists blow up celluloid factory... No film at 11.
- #Thank you for observing all safety precautions.
- #That must be wonderful; I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere
- #That that is is that that is not is not.
- #The Pyramids are a range of mountains between France and Spain.
- #The Schizophrenic: An Unauthorized Autobiography.
- #The Society of Independent People has no members.
- #The best cure for insomnia is a Monday morning. -- Sandy Cooley
- #The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep. -- W. C. Fields
- #The best way to inspire fresh thoughts is to seal the envelope.
- #The bigger they are, the harder they hit.
- #The chief cause of problems is solutions.
- #The cost of living hasn't affected its popularity.
- #The death rate on Earth is: One per person.
- #The decision does not have to be logical; it was unanimous.
- #The difference between a good haircut and a bad one is seven days.
- #The difficult we do today; the impossible takes a little longer.
- #The fact that it works is immaterial. -- Ogborn
- #The famous politician was trying to save both his faces.
- #The fewer the data points, the smoother the curve. -- May
- #The first myth of management is that it exists. -- Heller
- #The first rule of gun fighting is -- bring a gun.
- #The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. -- Shakespeare
- #The four seasons are salt, pepper, mustard, and vinegar.
- #The general direction of the Alps is straight up.
- #The grass is always greener on the other side of your sunglasses.
- #The highway of life is always under construction.
- #The idea is to die young as late as possible. -- Ashley Montague
- #The important thing is never to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein
- #The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. -- Lao-Tsze
- #The law of gravity was enacted by the British Parliament.
- #The meek shall inherit the Earth -- they are too weak to refuse.
- #The meek shall inherit the Earth after we are done with it.
- #The more keys you have, the more likely to be you are locked out.
- #The more things change, the more they stay insane. -- Tom Weller
- #The more things change, the more they will never be the same again.
- #The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey. -- Andy Warhol
- #The most dangerous part about playing cymbals is near the nose.
- #The next thing I say will be true. The last thing I said was false.
- #The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy.
- #The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. -- Oscar Wilde
- #The optimum committee has no members. -- Norman Augustine
- #The other line always moves faster.
- #The past is another country; they do things differently there.
- #The perversity of the universe tends toward a maximum. -- Finagle
- #The plural of "musical instrument" is "orchestra".
- #The prairies are vast plains covered by treeless forests.
- #The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
- #The richer your friends, the more they will cost you.
- #The trouble with political jokes is that they get elected.
- #The two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
- #The weather at home improves as soon as you go away. -- Gomme
- #The wind blows harder in the summer so the sun sets later.
- #The zebra is chiefly used to illustrate the letter Z.
- #There are many kinds of people in the world. Are you one of them?
- #There are more old drunkards than old doctors.
- #There is always more hell that needs raising. -- Lauren Leveut
- #There is at least one fool in every married couple.
- #There is exactly one true categorical statement. -- John Kessenich
- #There is intelligent life on Earth, but I am just visiting.
- #There is no future in time travel.
- #There is no problem a good miracle can't solve. -- Shick
- #There is no time like the pleasant.
- #There is nothing more permanent than a temporary tax.
- #There is nothing wrong with abstinence, in moderation.
- #There is nothing you can do that can't be done.
- #There is so much to say, but your eyes keep interrupting me.
- #There is very little future in being right when your boss is wrong.
- #They also surf who only stand on waves.
- #Things are more like they used to be than they are now.
- #Things equal to nothing else are equal to each other.
- #This saying would be seven words long if it were six words shorter.
- #This statement is in no way to be construed as a disclaimer.
- #Those who can, do; those who can't, simulate.
- #Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. -- Ben Franklin
- #Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
- #Time flies when you don't know what you are doing.
- #Time is an illusion perpetrated by the manufacturers of space.
- #Time is the best teacher; unfortunately, it kills all its students.
- #To be safe, make a copy of everything before you destroy it.
- #To err is human. To admit it is a blunder.
- #To err is human. To forgive is unusual.
- #To err is human; to forgive is Not Company Policy.
- #To generalize is to be an idiot. -- William Blake
- #To keep milk from turning sour, you should keep it in the cow.
- #To study a subject best, understand it thoroughly before you start.
- #To vacillate or not to vacillate, that is the question... or is it?
- #Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
- #Tomorrow looks like a good day to sleep in.
- #Too much of a good thing is WONDERFUL. -- Mae West
- #Truthful: Dumb and illiterate.
- #Try to get all of your posthumous medals in advance.
- #Twenty percent of zero is better than nothing. -- Walt Kelly
- #Two can live as cheaply as one for half as long. -- Howard Kandel
- #Two heads are more numerous than one. -- Tom Weller
- #Two is not equal to 3, not even for large values of 2. -- Grabel
- #Two wrongs are only the beginning. -- Kohn
- #Under every stone lurks a politician. -- Aristophanes
- #Unmatched: Almost as good as the competition.
- #Very few profundities can be expressed in less than 80 characters.
- #Vital papers demonstrate their vitality by spontaneously moving.
- #Wagner's music is better than it sounds. -- Mark Twain
- #Waste not, get your budget cut next year.
- #We are all self-made, but only the rich will admit it.
- #We are living in a golden age. All you need is gold. -- Robertson
- #We are sorry. We cannot complete your call as dialed.
- #We need either less corruption or more chance to participate in it.
- #We will cross out that bridge when we come back to it later.
- #We will get along fine as soon as you realize I am God.
- #Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise. -- John Heywood
- #Well adjusted: Makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
- #Well-adjusted: Able to play bridge or golf as if they were games.
- #What happens when you cut back the jungle? It recedes.
- #What if there were no hypothetical situations?
- #What is an atheist's favorite movie? "Coincidence on 34th Street"
- #What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. -- Thomas Key
- #What is research but a blind date with knowledge? -- Will Harvey
- #What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking someone to do.
- #What orators lack in depth they make up in length.
- #What scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch? -- J. D. Farley
- #What use is magic if it can't save a unicorn? -- Peter Beagle
- #Whatever you want to do, you have to do something else first.
- #When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. -- Mark Twain
- #When evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.
- #When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.
- #When it comes to helping you, some people stop at nothing.
- #When it's you against the world, bet on the world.
- #When management wants your opinion, they will give it to you.
- #When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws.
- #When pigs back into an electric fence, there is a short circus.
- #When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion. -- Ethiopian proverb
- #When the going gets tough, everyone leaves. -- Lynch
- #When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter Thompson
- #When they ship styrofoam, what do they pack it in?
- #When working hard, be sure to get up and retch every so often.
- #When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut.
- #When you breathe you inspire. When you do not breathe you expire.
- #When you dial a wrong number you never get a busy signal.
- #When you don't have an education, you've got to use your brains.
- #When you've seen one non-sequitar, the price of tea in China.
- #Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes.
- #Where is Denver? Denver is just below the O in Colorado.
- #Where there is a will, there is an Inheritance Tax.
- #Which is worse, ignorance or apathy? Who knows? Who cares?
- #Who cares about procreation, as long as it tickles?
- #Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.
- #Why did the chicken cross the road? He was giving it last rites.
- #Why did the politician cross the road? To get to the middle.
- #Why don't "minimalists" find a shorter name for themselves?
- #Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?
- #Why isn't "phonetic" spelled the way it's said?
- #Why was I born with such contemporaries? -- Oscar Wilde
- #Winning isn't everything, but losing isn't anything.
- #Without life, Biology itself would be impossible.
- #Women who desire to be like men, lack ambition.
- #Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
- #Years of development: We finally got one to work.
- #Yesterday was the deadline on all complaints.
- #Yield to temptation; it might not pass your way again.
- #You are warm and giving toward others. What are you after?
- #You aren't a real engineer until you make one $50,000 mistake.
- #You can observe a lot just by watchin'. -- Yogi Berra
- #You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
- #You cannot determine beforehand which side of the bread to butter.
- #You know you have landed gear-up when it takes full power to taxi.
- #You will be reincarnated as a toad; and you will be much happier.
- #You won't skid if you stay in a rut. -- Frank Hubbard
- #Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.
- #Your weight is perfect for your height -- which varies.
- #Youth is too good to be wasted on the young. -- G. B. Shaw
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- #Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you are at it.
- #Jury: Twelve men and women trying to decide which party has the best lawyer.
- #Just because you are not paranoid doesn't mean they are not out to get you.
- #Just when you get going, someone injects a dose of reality with a large needle.
- #Justice: A decision in your favor.
- #Keep a very firm grasp on reality, so you can strangle it at any time.
- #Keep America beautiful. Swallow your beer cans.
- #Keep stress out of your life. Give it to others instead.
- #Kleptomaniac: A rich thief.
- #Knocked; you weren't in. -- Opportunity
- #Know thyself -- but don't tell anyone.
- #Know what I hate most? Rhetorical questions. -- Henry Camp
- #Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
- #Laugh, and the world ignores you. Crying doesn't help either.
- #Lead me not into temptation. I can find it myself.
- #Learning at some schools is like drinking from a firehose.
- #Let him who takes the Plunge remember to return it by Tuesday.
- #Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
- #Liberal: A Conservative who has just been arrested.
- #Liberal: Someone too poor to be a capitalist and too rich to be a communist.
- #Lie: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date.
- #Life -- love it or leave it.
- #Life begins at the centerfold and expands outward. -- Miss November, 1966
- #Life is a game of bridge -- and you have just been finessed.
- #Life is complex. It has real and imaginary parts.
- #Life is difficult because it is non-linear.
- #Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.
- #Life is like a fountain... I will tell you how when I figure it out.
- #Life is like a maze in which you try to avoid the exit.
- #Life is like a sewer... What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
- #Life is like an analogy.
- #Life is not for everyone.
- #Life is uncertain, so eat dessert first.
- #Life is wasted on the living.
- #Life might have no meaning, or worse, it might have a meaning you don't like.
- #Life: A brief interlude between nothingness and eternity.
- #Little things come in small packages. -- Tom Weller
- #Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse.
- #Living on Earth includes an annual free trip around the Sun.
- #Living your life is so difficult, it has never been attempted before.
- #Logic is a little bird, sitting in a tree, that smells AWFUL.
- #Logic is a means of CONFIDENTLY being wrong.
- #Logic is an organized way of going wrong with confidence. -- Kettering
- #Love does not make the world go around, just up and down a bit.
- #Love is being stupid together.
- #Love is Grand... Divorce is Twenty Grand.
- #Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. Mencken
- #Love means having to say you're sorry every five minutes.
- #Love means nothing to a tennis player.
- #Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose thy neighborhood. -- Louise Beal
- #Love thy neighbor: Tune thy piano.
- #Love your enemies. It will make them crazy.
- #Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.
- #Love: The only game that is not called on account of darkness.
- #Love: The warm feeling you get towards someone who meets your neurotic needs.
- #Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine. -- Andy Warhol
- #Maintain thy airspeed, lest the ground rise up and smite thee.
- #Majority: That quality that distinguishes a crime from a law.
- #Make a firm decision now... you can always change it later.
- #Male zebras have white stripes, but female zebras have black stripes.
- #Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to. -- Mark Twain
- #Man who arrives at party two hours late finds he has been beaten to the punch.
- #Man who falls in blast furnace is certain to feel overwrought.
- #Man who falls in vat of molten optical glass makes spectacle of self.
- #Mankind has never reconciled itself to the ten commandments.
- #Mankind... infests the whole habitable Earth and Canada. -- Ambrose Bierce
- #Many a family tree needs trimming.
- #Many are called, but few are at their desks.
- #Many are cold, but few are frozen.
- #Many quite distinguished people have bodies similar to yours.
- #Marriage is a rest period between romances.
- #Marriage is a trip between Niagra Falls and Reno.
- #Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence.
- #Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. -- Voltaire
- #Marriage is the sole cause of divorce.
- #Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly
- #Math is like love; a simple idea, but it can get complicated. -- R. Drabek
- #Mathematicians are willing to assume anything -- except responsibility.
- #Matter cannot be created or destroyed; nor can it be returned without a receipt.
- #Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value.
- #Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.
- #May you die in bed at 95, shot by a jealous spouse.
- #May you have many friends and very few living enemies.
- #Maybe you can't buy happiness, but these days you can certainly charge it.
- #Measure with a micrometer; mark with chalk; cut with an axe. -- Ray
- #Meeting: A gathering where the minutes are kept and the hours lost. -- Gourd
- #Men seldom show dimples to girls who have pimples.
- #Michelangelo would have made better time with a roller.
- #Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. -- Groucho Marx
- #Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -- Groucho Marx
- #Millihelen: The amount of beauty required to launch one ship.
- #Miracles are great, but they are so damned unpredictable.
- #Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. -- Oscar Wilde
- #Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings.
- #Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. -- J. K. Galbraith
- #Modesty: Being comfortable that others will discover your greatness.
- #Momentum: What you give a person when they are going away.
- #Money can't buy happiness, but it can certainly rent it for a couple of hours.
- #Money can't buy happiness, but it lets you be miserable in comfort.
- #Money DOES talk -- it says goodbye.
- #Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
- #Money is the root of all evil, and man needs roots.
- #Monotony: The practice of having only one spouse at a time.
- #Most general statements are false, including this one. -- Alexander Dumas
- #Most people get lost in thought because it is unfamiliar territory. -- Paul Fixx
- #Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like. -- Bennett
- #Mother is the invention of necessity.
- #Mother told me to be good, but she has been wrong before.
- #Mountain climbers rope together to prevent the sensible ones from going home.
- #Mountain range: A cooking stove used at high altitudes.
- #Mummy: An Egyptian who was pressed for time.
- #Music sung by two people at the same time is called a duel.
- #My family history begins with me, but yours ends with you. -- Iphicrates
- #My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
- #My opinions might have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
- #My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's. -- Wilde
- #My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. - Morley
- #Mysticism is based on the assumption that you can quit the game.
- #Narcolepulacy: The contagious action of yawning.
- #Necessity is a mother.
- #Neckties strangle clear thinking. -- Lin Yutang
- #Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow.
- #Never eat anything bigger than your head. -- Kliban
- #Never have any children, only grandchildren. -- Gore Vidal
- #Never hit a man with glasses. Hit him with a baseball bat.
- #Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repainting. -- Billy Rose
- #Never offend with style when you can offend with substance. -- Sam Brown
- #Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together.
- #Never sleep with anyone crazier than yourself. -- Hartley
- #Never verb your nouns.
- #New: Different color from previous model.
- #Nice guys don't finish nice.
- #Nine out of ten doctors agree that one out of ten doctors is an idiot.
- #Nine out of ten people think they are above average. The rest are in therapy.
- #No guts, no glory.
- #No maintenance: Impossible to fix.
- #No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.
- #No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next. -- Howe
- #No matter what goes wrong, there's always someone who knew it would.
- #No matter what results are expected, someone is always willing to fake it.
- #No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.
- #No one gets too old to learn a new way of being stupid.
- #No prizes for predicting rain. Prizes only awarded for building arks.
- #No problem is so large it can't be fit in somewhere.
- #Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.
- #Nobody ever has a reservation on a plane that leaves from Gate 1.
- #Nobody knows the trouble I have been.
- #Nobody wants constructive criticism. We can barely handle constructive praise.
- #Nondeterminism means never having to say you are wrong.
- #Nonsense. Space is blue and birds fly through it. -- Heisenberg
- #Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be.
- #Not all men who drink are poets. Some of us drink because we are not poets.
- #Nothing can be done in one trip. -- Snider
- #Nothing cures insomnia like the realization that it is time to get up.
- #Nothing increases your golf score like witnesses.
- #Nothing is as inevitable as a mistake whose time has come. -- Tussman
- #Nothing is ever a total loss; it can always serve as a bad example.
- #Nothing is finished until the paperwork is done.
- #Nothing is impossible or impassable if you have enough nails.
- #Nothing recedes like success. -- Walter Winchell
- #Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. -- Mark Twain
- #Nothing will dispel enthusiasm like a small admission fee. -- Kim Hubbard
- #Now and then an innocent person is sent to the Legislature.
- #Nuclear war would really set back cable. -- Ted Turner
- #Nudists are people who wear one-button suits.
- #Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable. -- Plato
- #Of course I am happily married -- she's happy, and I'm married.
- #Often it is fatal to live too long. -- Racine
- #Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to conceive. -- Herold
- #Old MacDonald had an agricultural real estate tax abatement.
- #Omniscience: Talking only about things you know about.
- #On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia. -- W. C. Fields's epitaph
- #Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it only makes it worse.
- #Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Thrice is enemy action.
- #Once upon a time, charity was a virtue and not an organization.
- #One Bell System -- it sometimes works.
- #One child is not enough, but two children are far too many.
- #One good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe.
- #One good turn usually gets most of the blanket.
- #One nice thing about egotists: They don't talk about other people.
- #One size fits all: Doesn't fit anyone.
- #One thing leads to another, and usually does.
- #One way to make your old car run better is to look up the price of a new model.
- #Only adults have difficulty with childproof caps.
- #Only fools are quoted. -- Anonymous
- #Only through hard work and perseverance can one truly suffer.
- #Only two groups of people fall for flattery: Men and women.
- #Opportunity always knocks at the least opportune moment. -- Ducharme
- #Our parents were never our age.
- #Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing. -- Roy Ash
- #Our problems are mostly behind us. Now we have to fight the solutions.
- #Our vision is to speed up time, eventually eliminating it. -- Alex Schure
- #Out of the mouths of babes does often come cereal.
- #Outpatient: A person who has fainted.
- #Oversteer is when the passenger is scared; understeer when the driver is scared.
- #Packrat's credo: "I have no use for it, but I hate to see it go to waste."
- #Paper is always strongest at the perforations. -- Corry
- #Paradise is exactly like where you are, only MUCH, MUCH better. -- Anderson
- #Paradox: An assistant to PhDs.
- #Parallel lines never meet unless you bend one or both of them.
- #Paranoia: A healthy understanding of the nature of the universe.
- #Paranoid schizophrenics outnumber their enemies at least two to one.
- #People accept an idea more readily if you say Benjamin Franklin said it first.
- #People have one thing in common: They are all different.
- #People usually get what's coming to them... unless it was mailed.
- #People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw parties.
- #People who take cat naps usually don't sleep in a cat's cradle.
- #People who think they know everything greatly annoy those of us who do.
- #People will buy anything that is one to a customer. -- Lewis
- #Perfect guest: One who makes his host feel at home.
- #Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.
- #Perhaps your whole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
- #Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
- #Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth. -- Don Marquis
- #Pity the poor egg; it only gets laid once.
- #Politics consists of deals and ideals.
- #Politics: The art of turning influence into affluence.
- #Positive: Being mistaken at the top of your voice.
- #Possessions increase to fill the space available for their storage. -- Ryan
- #Pound for pound, the amoeba is the most vicious animal on Earth.
- #Power means not having to respond.
- #Predestination was doomed from the start.
- #Preudhomme's Law of Window Cleaning: It's on the other side.
- #Pro is to con as progress is to Congress.
- #Proctologist: A doctor who puts in a hard day at the orifice.
- #Professor: One who talks in someone else's sleep.
- #Progress means replacing a theory that is wrong with one more subtly wrong.
- #Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long. -- Nash
- #Proofreading is more effective after publication. -- Barker
- #Proximity isn't everything, but it comes close.
- #Puritan: Someone who is deathly afraid that someone somewhere is having fun.
- #Pushing 40 is exercise enough.
- #Quality assurance doesn't.
- #Quantity is no substitute for quality, but it is the only one we have.
- #Question Authority... and the Authorities will question you!
- #Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. (Anything in Latin sounds profound.)
- #Quinine is the bark of a tree; canine is the bark of a dog.
- #Quit working and play for once!
- #Quoting one is plagiarism. Quoting many is research.
- #Rainy days and automatic weapons always get me down.
- #Reality is for people who lack imagination.
- #Reality is just a convenient measure of complexity. -- Alvy Smith
- #Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Dick
- #Refrain means don't do it. A refrain in music is the part you better not sing.
- #Refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
- #Reputation: What others are not thinking about you.
- #Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- von Braun
- #Rugged: Too heavy to lift.
- #Russia has abolished God, but so far God has been more tolerant. -- Swayze
- #Sacred cows make great hamburger.
- #Sailing: A form of mast transit.
- #Satisfaction guaranteed, or twice your load back. -- sign on septic tank truck
- #Schroedinger's cat might have died for your sins.
- #Science is material. Religion is immaterial.
- #Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
- #Seeing is deceiving. It's eating that's believing. -- James Thurber
- #Seek simplicity -- and distrust it. -- Alfred Whitehead
- #Serendipity: The process by which human knowledge is advanced.
- #Serving coffee on aircraft causes turbulence.
- #Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing.
- #She walks as if balancing the family tree on her nose.
- #Silly is a state of mind. Stupid is a way of life.
- #Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. -- Fletcher Knebel
- #Snow and adolescence are problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.
- #Socialism is based on the assumption that you can break even.
- #Some is good, more is better, too much is just right.
- #Some make things happen; some watch what happens; some wonder what happened.
- #Some men are discovered; others are found out.
- #Some people cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- #Some people who can, should not.
- #Some people would not recognize subtlety if it hit them on the head.
- #Some prefer the happiness of pursuit to the pursuit of happiness.
- #Someday you will get your big chance -- or have you already had it?
- #Someday you will look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.
- #Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. -- Sigmund Freud
- #Sorry, but my karma just ran over your dogma.
- #Spare no expense to save money on this one. -- Samuel Goldwyn
- #Speed is n subsittute fo accurancy.
- #Spelling is a lossed art.
- #Spinster: A bachelor's wife.
- #Standing on head makes smile of frown, but rest of face also upside down.
- #Stealing a rhinoceros should not be attempted lightly.
- #Stock item: We shipped it once before and we can do it again.
- #Stop committing useless mistakes. Make your next mistake count!
- #Strategy is when you keep firing so the enemy doesn't know you're out of ammo.
- #Stupid: Losing $25 on the game, and $25 more on the instant replay.
- #Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.
- #Success is something I will dress for when I get there, and not until.
- #Success: The ability to go from failure to failure without being discouraged.
- #Sweater: A garment worn by a child when his parent feels chilly.
- #System-independent: Works equally poorly on all systems.
- #Tact: The unsaid part of what you are thinking.
- #Take everything in stride. Trample anyone who gets in your way.
- #Talent does what it can; genius does what it must; I do what I am paid to do.
- #Taxes are going up so fast, the government might price itself out of the market.
- #Taxes: The one of life's two certainties for which you can get an extension.
- #Teamwork is essential; it allows you to blame someone else.
- #Technique: A trick that works.
- #Teenagers are two year olds with hormones and wheels. -- Will Limon
- #Telepathy: Knowing what people think when really they don't think at all.
- #Terrorists blow up celluloid factory... No film at 11.
- #Thank you for observing all safety precautions.
- #That must be wonderful; I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere
- #That that is is that that is not is not.
- #The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. -- Clifton Fadiman
- #The best cure for insomnia is a Monday morning. -- Sandy Cooley
- #The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep. -- W. C. Fields
- #The best laid plans of mice and men are usually about equal. -- Blair
- #The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.
- #The best way to inspire fresh thoughts is to seal the envelope.
- #The bigger they are, the harder they hit.
- #The bureaucracy expands to meet the needs of an expanding bureaucracy.
- #The chief cause of problems is solutions.
- #The climate of Bombay is such that its inhabitants have to live elsewhere.
- #The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. -- Mark Twain
- #The cost of living hasn't affected its popularity.
- #The cost of living is going up, and the chance of living is going down.
- #The cow is a machine that makes grass fit for us people to eat. -- John McNulty
- #The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other, milk. -- Ogden Nash
- #The death rate on Earth is: One per person.
- #The decision does not have to be logical; it was unanimous.
- #The difference between a good haircut and a bad one is seven days.
- #The difficult we do today; the impossible takes a little longer.
- #The fact that it works is immaterial. -- Ogborn
- #The famous politician was trying to save both his faces.
- #The fewer the data points, the smoother the curve. -- May
- #The first myth of management is that it exists. -- Heller
- #The first piece of luggage out of the chute does not belong to anyone, ever.
- #The first rule of gun fighting is -- bring a gun.
- #The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Ehrlich
- #The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
- #The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. -- Shakespeare
- #The four seasons are salt, pepper, mustard, and vinegar.
- #The future is a myth created by insurance salesmen and high school counselors.
- #The general direction of the Alps is straight up.
- #The grass is always greener on the other side of your sunglasses.
- #The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- Einstein
- #The highway of life is always under construction.
- #The idea is to die young as late as possible. -- Ashley Montague
- #The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
- #The law of gravity was enacted by the British Parliament.
- #The light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an approaching train.
- #The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
- #The meek shall inherit the Earth -- they are too weak to refuse.
- #The meek shall inherit the Earth after we are done with it.
- #The more keys you have, the more likely to be you are locked out.
- #The more things change, the more they stay insane. -- Tom Weller
- #The more things change, the more they will never be the same again.
- #The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey. -- Andy Warhol
- #The most dangerous part about playing cymbals is near the nose.
- #The next thing I say will be true. The last thing I said was false.
- #The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
- #The number watching you is proportional to the stupidity of your action.
- #The number you have dialed is imaginary. Please multiply by i and dial again.
- #The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy.
- #The one who says it can't be done should never interrupt the one doing it.
- #The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. -- Oscar Wilde
- #The only tools some people are competent to use are a pen and a checkbook.
- #The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. -- Oscar Wilde
- #The optimum committee has no members. -- Norman Augustine
- #The other line always moves faster.
- #The past is another country; they do things differently there.
- #The perversity of the universe tends toward a maximum. -- Finagle
- #The plural of "musical instrument" is "orchestra".
- #The prairies are vast plains covered by treeless forests.
- #The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
- #The Pyramids are a range of mountains between France and Spain.
- #The race is not always to the swift... but that's the way to bet. -- Runyon
- #The richer your friends, the more they will cost you.
- #The Schizophrenic: An Unauthorized Autobiography.
- #The second best policy is dishonesty.
- #The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you have it made.
- #The shortest distance between two points is through hell. -- Brian Clark
- #The shortest distance between two points is under construction. -- Altito
- #The Society of Independent People has no members.
- #The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up. -- Ogden
- #The stapler runs out of staples only while you are trying to staple something.
- #The supernova makes Mt. St. Helens and Krakatoa look puny. -- Time Magazine
- #The theory of evolution was greatly objected to because it made men think.
- #The things that interest people most are usually none of their business.
- #The total intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.
- #The Tree of Learning bears the noblest fruit, but noble fruit tastes bad.
- #The trouble with a kitten is that, when it grows up, it is always a cat. -- Nash
- #The trouble with being punctual is that no one is there to appreciate it.
- #The trouble with political jokes is that they get elected.
- #The two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
- #The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
- #The universe is surrounded by whatever it is that surrounds universes.
- #The weather at home improves as soon as you go away. -- Gomme
- #The wind blows harder in the summer so the sun sets later.
- #The word today is legs... Spread the word.
- #The world isn't any worse. It's just that the news coverage is so much better.
- #The world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. -- Sean O'Casey
- #The zebra is chiefly used to illustrate the letter Z.
- #Theft from a single author is plagiarism. Theft from three or more is research.
- #There are many excuses for being late, but there are none for being early.
- #There are many kinds of people in the world. Are you one of them?
- #There are more old drunkards than old doctors.
- #There are more things in heaven and Earth than anyplace else. -- Tom Weller
- #There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. -- Kissinger
- #There is a fine line between courage and foolishness. Too bad it's not a fence.
- #There is always more hell that needs raising. -- Lauren Leveut
- #There is an alarming increase in the number of things you know nothing about.
- #There is an old proverb that says just about whatever you want it to.
- #There is at least one fool in every married couple.
- #There is exactly one true categorical statement. -- John Kessenich
- #There is intelligent life on Earth, but I am just visiting.
- #There is no future in time travel.
- #There is no problem a good miracle can't solve. -- Shick
- #There is no substitute for good manners, except, perhaps, fast reflexes.
- #There is no time like the pleasant.
- #There is nothing more permanent than a temporary tax.
- #There is nothing wrong with abstinence, in moderation.
- #There is nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate.
- #There is nothing you can do that can't be done.
- #There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. -- Dali
- #There is so much to say, but your eyes keep interrupting me.
- #There is very little future in being right when your boss is wrong.
- #There must be more to life than sitting wondering if there is more to life.
- #They also surf who only stand on waves.
- #They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist... -- last words of General Sedgwick
- #Things are more like they are today then they ever were before. -- Eisenhower
- #Things are more like they used to be than they are now.
- #Things equal to nothing else are equal to each other.
- #Things will get better despite our efforts to improve them. -- Will Rogers
- #This is the sort of English up with which I will not put. -- Winston Churchill
- #This isn't right. This isn't even wrong. -- Wolfgang Pauli, on physics paper
- #This may not be the best of all worlds, but it is certainly the most expensive.
- #This saying would be seven words long if it were six words shorter.
- #This sentence no verb.
- #This statement is in no way to be construed as a disclaimer.
- #Those who can, do; those who can't, simulate.
- #Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address. -- Olinghouse
- #Those who like sausages and the law had better not watch either one being made.
- #Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. -- Ben Franklin
- #Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
- #Time flies when you don't know what you are doing.
- #Time is an illusion perpetrated by the manufacturers of space.
- #Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.
- #Time is the best teacher; unfortunately, it kills all its students.
- #To be safe, make a copy of everything before you destroy it.
- #To err is human. To admit it is a blunder.
- #To err is human. To blame someone else for your errors is even more human.
- #To err is human. To forgive is unusual.
- #To err is human; to forgive is Not Company Policy.
- #To generalize is to be an idiot. -- William Blake
- #To get it done: Do it yourself, hire someone, or forbid your kids to do it.
- #To keep milk from turning sour, you should keep it in the cow.
- #To make a small fortune in the commodities market, start with a large fortune.
- #To study a subject best, understand it thoroughly before you start.
- #To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.
- #To vacillate or not to vacillate, that is the question... or is it?
- #Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
- #Toe: A part of the foot used to find furniture in the dark. -- Rilla May
- #Tomorrow looks like a good day to sleep in.
- #Too much is not enough.
- #Too much of a good thing is WONDERFUL. -- Mae West
- #Tragedy: A busload of lawyers driving off a cliff with three empty seats.
- #Truth is the most valuable thing we have -- so let us economize it. -- Twain
- #Truthful: Dumb and illiterate.
- #Try to get all of your posthumous medals in advance.
- #TV is called a medium because it is neither rare nor well done.
- #Twenty percent of zero is better than nothing. -- Walt Kelly
- #Two can live as cheaply as one for half as long. -- Howard Kandel
- #Two heads are more numerous than one. -- Tom Weller
- #Two is not equal to 3, not even for large values of 2. -- Grabel
- #Two wrongs are only the beginning. -- Kohn
- #Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it is just the opposite.
- #Under every stone lurks a politician. -- Aristophanes
- #Unmatched: Almost as good as the competition.
- #Very few profundities can be expressed in less than 80 characters.
- #Vital papers demonstrate their vitality by spontaneously moving.
- #Volcano: A mountain with hiccups.
- #Vote anarchist.
- #Wagner's music is better than it sounds. -- Mark Twain
- #Waste not, get your budget cut next year.
- #We are all politicians. Some of us are just honest enough to admit it.
- #We are all self-made, but only the rich will admit it.
- #We are living in a golden age. All you need is gold. -- Robertson
- #We are not a loved organization, but we are a respected one. -- John Fisher
- #We are so fond of each other because our ailments are the same. -- Swift
- #We are sorry. We cannot complete your call as dialed.
- #We can loan you enough money to get you completely out of debt. -- sign in bank
- #We could do that, but it would be wrong, that's for sure. -- Richard Nixon
- #We don't have to protect the environment; the Second Coming is at hand. -- Watt
- #We need either less corruption or more chance to participate in it.
- #We totally deny the allegations, and we are trying to identify the allegators.
- #We will cross out that bridge when we come back to it later.
- #We will get along fine as soon as you realize I am God.
- #We will have solar energy when the power companies develop a sunbeam meter.
- #Wealth: The ability to support debt.
- #Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise. -- John Heywood
- #Well adjusted: Makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
- #Well-adjusted: Able to play bridge or golf as if they were games.
- #What can't be said, can't be said. And it can't be whistled, either. -- Tirtha
- #What did you bring the book I want to be read to out of about Down Under up for?
- #What do you call 10,000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A good start.
- #What do you call a lawyer buried up to his neck in sand? Not enough sand.
- #What happens when you cut back the jungle? It recedes.
- #What if there were no hypothetical situations?
- #What is an atheist's favorite movie? "Coincidence on 34th Street"
- #What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. -- Thomas Key
- #What is research but a blind date with knowledge? -- Will Harvey
- #What is the difference between a duck? One of its legs is both the same.
- #What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking someone to do.
- #What orators lack in depth they make up in length.
- #What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? -- Ursula LeGuin
- #What scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch? -- J. D. Farley
- #What this country needs is more leaders who know what this country needs.
- #What use is magic if it can't save a unicorn? -- Peter Beagle
- #What, after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean. -- Fry
- #Whatever you want to do, you have to do something else first.
- #When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. -- Mark Twain
- #When evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.
- #When I look at my children, I often wish I had remained a virgin. -- L. Carter
- #When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad, I'm better. -- Mae West
- #When in charge, ponder. When in doubt, mumble. When in trouble, delegate.
- #When in doubt, lead trump.
- #When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.
- #When it comes to helping you, some people stop at nothing.
- #When it's you against the world, bet on the world.
- #When management wants your opinion, they will give it to you.
- #When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws.
- #When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes. -- Dylan Thomas
- #When pigs back into an electric fence, there is a short circus.
- #When someone says, "It ain't the money, but the principle," it's the money.
- #When the going gets tough, everyone leaves. -- Lynch
- #When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter Thompson
- #When they ship styrofoam, what do they pack it in?
- #When working hard, be sure to get up and retch every so often.
- #When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut.
- #When you breathe you inspire. When you do not breathe you expire.
- #When you dial a wrong number you never get a busy signal.
- #When you make your mark in the world, watch out for guys with erasers.
- #When you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow. -- LBJ
- #When you've seen one non-sequitar, the price of tea in China.
- #When your memory goes, forget it!
- #Whenever anyone says, "theoretically", they really mean, "not really". -- Parnas
- #Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes.
- #Where is Denver? Denver is just below the O in Colorado.
- #Where there is a will, there is an Inheritance Tax.
- #Where there's a whip there's a way.
- #Where there's a will, there's a relative.
- #Whether you can hear it or not, the universe is laughing behind your back.
- #Which is worse, ignorance or apathy? Who knows? Who cares?
- #While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position.
- #Who cares about procreation, as long as it tickles?
- #Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.
- #Why be difficult when, with a bit of effort, you could be impossible?
- #Why bother building any more nuclear warheads until we use the ones we have?
- #Why did the chicken cross the road? He was giving it last rites.
- #Why did the chicken cross the road? The rooster was on the other side.
- #Why did the politician cross the road? To get to the middle.
- #Why did the tachyon cross the road? Because it was on the other side.
- #Why doesn't life come with subtitles?
- #Why don't "minimalists" find a shorter name for themselves?
- #Why is "abbreviated" such a long word?
- #Why is "palindrome" spelled "palindrome" and not "palindromeemordnilap"?
- #Why is it that there are so many more horses' asses than horses? -- Liddy
- #Why isn't "phonetic" spelled the way it's said?
- #Why was I born with such contemporaries? -- Oscar Wilde
- #Why would anyone want to be called Later?
- #Winning isn't everything, but losing isn't anything.
- #With a rubber duck, one's never alone.
- #Without life, Biology itself would be impossible.
- #Women want one man to meet every need; men want every woman to meet one need.
- #Women who desire to be like men, lack ambition.
- #Work is the curse of the drinking class.
- #Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
- #Years of development: We finally got one to work.
- #Yesterday was the deadline on all complaints.
- #Yield to temptation; it might not pass your way again.
- #Yo-yo: Something occasionally up but normally down (see also "computer").
- #You are here. But you are not all there.
- #You are not paranoid if they're really after you...
- #You are warm and giving toward others. What are you after?
- #You aren't a real engineer until you make one $50,000 mistake.
- #You can fool some of the people some of the time, and that is sufficient.
- #You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word.
- #You can learn many things from children... like how much patience you have.
- #You can observe a lot just by watchin'. -- Yogi Berra
- #You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
- #You cannot buy beer; you can only rent it.
- #You cannot determine beforehand which side of the bread to butter.
- #You have the capacity to learn from mistakes. You will learn a lot today.
- #You know you are a little fat if you have stretch marks on your car. -- Cyrus
- #You know you are over the hill when work is less fun and fun is more work.
- #You know you have landed gear-up when it takes full power to taxi.
- #You never know how many friends you have until you rent a house on the beach.
- #You never know who is right, but you always know who is in charge. -- Whistler
- #You will be reincarnated as a toad; and you will be much happier.
- #You will never hit your finger if you hold the hammer with both hands.
- #You will pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please disregard.
- #You won't skid if you stay in a rut. -- Frank Hubbard
- #You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. -- Dean Martin
- #Your reasoning is silly and irrational but it is beginning to make sense.
- #Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.
- #Your weight is perfect for your height -- which varies.
- #Youth is too good to be wasted on the young. -- G. B. Shaw
- #[He] has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. -- Churchill
- #[Nuclear war]... may not be desirable. -- Edwin Meese III
- #Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
- #Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. -- Mark Twain
- #There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come. -- Everett Dirkson
- #Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby.
- #There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them. -- Heisenberg
- #If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. --James Goldsmith
- #The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone. --Harriet Beecher Stowe
- #A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. -- H. L. Mencken
- #Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels. -- Goya
- #College isn't the place to go for ideas. -- Hellen Keller
- #We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. -- Dwight D Eisenhower
- #I used to be indecisive; now I'm not sure. -- GRAFFITI
- #Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
- #We have met the enemy, and he is us. -- Walt Kelly
- #When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion. -- Ethiopian proverb
- #Middle age is youth without it's levity. And old age without decay. -- Daniel Defoe
- #I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it. -- George Bernard Shaw
- #Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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