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*A drink a day keeps the shrink away. (Edward Abbey)
*"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactlywhat the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and bereplaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is anothertheory which states that this has already happened." (Douglas Adams)
*"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot ofpeople very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." (Douglas Adams)
*"I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it'shard enough to find your way around Chinatown." (Woody Allen)
*Half of the people in the world are below average. (Anonymous)
*Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. (Anonymous)
*On a tombstone: "I TOLD YOU I WAS SICK" (Anonymous)
*Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. (Anonymous)
*"Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thoughtfor those people who can't remember where they leave things." (Anonymous)
*Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Therefore .... (Anonymous)
*Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence. (Anonymous)
*Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriageis the triumph of hope over experience. (Anonymous)
*Marriage is when a man and woman become as one; the trouble starts whenthey try to decide which one. (Anonymous)
*Marriages are made in heaven. But so again, are thunder and lightning. (Anonymous)
*Before marriage, a man yearns for the woman he loves. After marriage, the'Y' becomes silent. (Anonymous)
*Do not marry a person that you know that you can live with; only marrysomeone that you cannot live without. (Anonymous)
*I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. (Anonymous)
*If you want your spouse to listen and pay strict attention to every wordyou say, talk in your sleep. (Anonymous)
*Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to hissuccess. (Jim Backus)
*Somebody hits me, I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like hehasn't eaten in a while. {after blatantly elbowing an Angolan basketballopponent in the Olympics}. (Charles Barkley)
*Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen,for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.(Dave Barry)
*Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer.Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel doesnot go nearly as well with pizza. (Dave Barry's Bad Habits, Dave Barry)
*All other nations are drinking Ray Charles beer and we are drinking BarryManilow. (Dave Barry)
*When I heated my home with oil, I used an average of 800 gallons a year. Ihave found that I can keep comfortably warm for an entire winter with slightlyover half that quantity of beer. (Postpetroleum Guzzler, Dave Barry)
*If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant'slife, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering ifthere are men on base. (Dave Barry)
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it" - Yogi Berra
*"If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhereelse!" (Yogi Berra)
*Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself apleasure. (Ambrose Bierce)
*I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must bewhy my wife treats me like toxic waste. (David Bissonette)
*The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.(Humphrey Bogart)
*"We are an impossibility in an impossible universe." (RayBradbury)
*"The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universeseems to be missing." (William J. Broad)
*Time is God's way to keep everything from happening at once. (James Brown)
*I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because Ihate plants. -A. (Whitney Brown)
*(Calvin): People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don'trealize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world. (Hobbes):Isn't your pants' zipper supposed to be in the front?
*People who drink light "beer" don't like the taste of beer; theyjust like to pee a lot. (Capital Brewery, Middleton, WI)
*There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in thestreets? -(Dick Cavett), {mocking the TV-violence debate}
*"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving tobuild bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying toproduce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." (Rich Cook)
*"I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's notholding a charge." (Edward Chilton)
*Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink. --Lady Astor toWinston Churchill Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it. --His reply
*The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to bewhen you kill them. (William Clayton)
*I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. (Noel Coward, 1956)
A girl phoned me the other day and said .... Come on over, there's nobody home. I went over. Nobody was home. (Rodney Dangerfield)
If it weren't for pick-pocketers I'd have no sex life at all. (Rodney Dangerfield)
And we were poor too. Why if I wasn't born a boy.... I'd have nothing toplay with. (Rodney Dangerfield)
During sex my girlfriend always wants to talk to me. Just the other nightshe called me from a hotel. (Rodney Dangerfield)
One day as I came home early from work ..... I saw a guy jogging naked. Isaid to the guy .... Hey buddy .... why are you doing that for? He said ....Because you came home early. (Rodney Dangerfield)
Its been a rough day. I got up this morning .... put on a shirt and a buttonfell off. I picked up my briefcase and the handle came off. I'm afraid to go tothe bathroom. (Rodney Dangerfield)
When I played in the sandbox the cat kept covering me up. (Rodney Dangerfield)
I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and aradio. (Rodney Dangerfield)
My mother never breast fed me.She told me that she only liked me as afriend. (Rodney Dangerfield)
My father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet. (Rodney Dangerfield)
When I was born .... the doctor came out to the waiting room and said to myfather .... I'm very sorry. We did everything we could....but he pulledthrough. (Rodney Dangerfield)
My mother had morning sickness after I was born. (RodneyDangerfield)
I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to myfather. He said he wanted more proof. (Rodney Dangerfield)
Once when I was lost..... I saw a policeman and asked him to help me find myparents. I said to him ..... do you think we'll ever find them? He said ... Idon't know kid .... there are so many places they can hide. (RodneyDangerfield)
On Halloween .... the parents send their kids out looking like me. Lastyear... one kid tried to rip my face off! Now its different...when I answer thedoor the kids hand me candy. (Rodney Dangerfield)
My wife made me join a bridge club. I jump off next Tuesday. (Rodney Dangerfield)
I worked in a pet shop and people kept asking how big I'd get. (Rodney Dangerfield)
I went to see my doctor. Doctor, every morning when I get up and look in themirror... I feel like throwing up; What's wrong with me? He said... I don'tknow but your eyesight is perfect. (Rodney Dangerfield)
My psychiatrist told me I'm going crazy. I told him .... If you don't mindI'd like a second opinion. He said .... Alright.... you're ugly too! (Rodney Dangerfield)
When I was born the doctor took one look at my face .... turned me over andsaid. Look ... twins! (Rodney Dangerfield)
I remember when I swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills. My doctor told me tohave a few drinks and get some rest. (Rodney Dangerfield)
*If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs. (David Daye)
*Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. ( Phyllis Diller )
*And that's the world in a nutshell -- an appropriate receptacle. ( StanDunn )
*"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, andI'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein)
*"Men marry women with the hope they will never change. "Womenmarry men with the hope they will change. "Invaribly they are both disappointed." (Albert Einstein)
"Is being an idiot like being high all the time?" - JaneaneGarofalo
Adhere to Schweinheitsgebot. Don't put anything in your beer that a pigwouldn't eat. (David Geary)
*When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an importantlesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities. -From "BasicSex Facts For Today's Youngfolk" in "Life In Hell'', by (MattGroening)
*When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let himkeep her. (Sacha Guitry)
*A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearrangingtheir prejudices. (William James)
*Tell a man there are 300 Billion stars in the universe and he'll believeyou. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to besure. (Jarger)
*"A lady came up to me on the street and pointed at my suede jacket.'You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?' she sneered. I replied in apsychotic tone, 'I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have to killyou too.'" - (Jake Johansen)
*After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they justcan't face each other, but still they stay together. (Hemant Joshi)
*The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, thereare 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulationson the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words. -From an article on the growth offederal regulations in the Oct. 24th issue of (National Review)
*After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that broughttears to my eyes. He said, "No hablo ingles." ( Ronnie Shakes )
*By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get abad one, you'll become a philosopher...and that is a good thing for any man.(Socrates)
*"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me tosee him in a department store and he asked for my autograph." ~~ ShirleyTemple
*"The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest." (Kilgore Trout)
*"In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modestproposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from timeto time." (Edward P. Tryon)
*A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. Asuccessful woman is one who can find such a man. (Lana Turner)
*Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes younothing. It was here first. ( Mark Twain )
*Suppose you were an idiot....And suppose you were a member of Congress....But I repeat myself. (Mark Twain)
*Life is a waste of time, time is a waste of life, so get wasted all of thetime and have the time of your life. (Tom Waits)
*I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy. (TomWaits)
*I am a deeply superficial person. ( Andy Warhol )
"The more you think about things, the weirder they seem. Take this milk.Why do we drink *cow* milk?? Who was the guy who first looked at a cow andsaid, "I think I'll drink whatever comes out of these things when Isqueeze 'em!"?" - Bill Watterson (‘Calvin & Hobbes’)
*(Calvin and Hobbes): "The surest sign that intelligent life existselsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us." (Bill Watterson)
*Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. (MaeWest)
*My school colors were "clear". (Steven Wright)
*I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake-up letter.(Steven Wright)
*I'm taking Lamaze classes. I'm not having a baby, I'm just having troublebreathing. (Steven Wright)
*My girlfriend is weird. She asked me, "If you could know how andwhen you were going to die, would you want to know?" I said,"No." She said, "Okay, then forget it." (StevenWright)
*I went for a walk last night and she asked me how long I was going tobe gone. I said, "The whole time". (Steven Wright)
*Hermits have no peer pressure. (Steven Wright)
*Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories. (Steven Wright)
*There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like anidiot. (Steven Wright)
*How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn't live there? (StevenWright)
*The other day I went to a tourist information booth and asked, "Tellme about some of the people who were here last year." (StevenWright)
*What a nice night for an evening. (Steven Wright)
*When I was in high school, I got in trouble with my girlfriend's Dad. Hesaid, "I want my daughter back by 8:15." I said, "Themiddle of August? Cool!" (Steven Wright)
*Did Washington just flash a quarter for his ID? (Steven Wright)
*I just got skylights put in my place. The people who live above me arefurious. (Steven Wright)
*I live on a one-way dead-end street. (Steven Wright)
*It doesn't matter what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature. (Steven Wright)
*Yesterday, my eyeglass prescription ran out. (Steven Wright)
*I was hitchhiking the other day and a hearse stopped. I said, "Nothanks -- I'm not going that far." (Steven Wright)
*I played a blank tape on full volume. The mime who lives next doorcomplained. (Steven Wright)
*Why in a country of free speech, are there phone bills? (StevenWright)
*When a man talks dirty to a woman, it's sexual harassment. When awoman talks dirty to a man, it's $3.95 per minute. (Steven Wright)
Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the time. (Catherine Zandonella)
*"Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and itholds the universe together...." (Carl Zwanzig)
*A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished. (Zsa Zsa Gabor)
*I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.(Zsa Zsa Gabor)
Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? Butwhen you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window! - Steve Bluestone
Have you ever noticed.... Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, andanyone going faster than you is a maniac? - George Carlin
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking fivemiles aday when she was 60. She's 97 today and we doesn't know where the hell she is.- Ellen DeGeneris
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They'veexperienced pain and bought jewelry. - Rita Rudner
I would love to speak a foreign language but I can't. So I grew hair undermy arms instead. - Sue Kolinsky
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.- Carol Leifer
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second dayyou're off it. - Jackie Gleason
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like somefries." The girl at the counter said, "Would you like some fries withthat?" - Jay Leno
I date this girl for two years -- and then the nagging starts: "I wannaknow your name..." - Mike Binder
Advertising: The science of arresting the human intelligence long enough toget money from it. - Stephen Leacock The reason most people play golf is towear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. - Roger Simon
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax, tomorrowyou'll be afraid to cough. - Pearl Williams
I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets. -Dave Edison
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television bycandlelight. - George Gobel
Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the SalvationArmy instead. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it backfor seventy-five cents.
Work is the curse of the drinking classes. --Oscar Wilde
24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?
Beer is good food.
you don't like jail? naw, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.--Charles Bukowski
If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makesbeer shoot out your nose. --Deep Thought, Jack Handy
My problem with most athletic challenges is training. I'm lazy and find thatworkouts cut into my drinking time.--A Wolverine is Eating My Leg
Put it back in the horse! --H. Allen Smith, an American humorist in the'30s-'50s, after he drank his first American beer at a bar.
Never hit a man with glasses. Hit him with something bigger and heavier.-Anonymous Never accept a drink from a urologist. -Erma Bombeck
Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hearat your trial. -Sydney Biddle Barrows, the "Mayflower Madam"
Never say "Oops" in the operating room. - Dr. Leo Troy
Never comment on a woman's rear end. Never use the words "large"or "size" with "rear end". Never. Avoid the areaaltogether. Trust me. -Tim Allen
Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for thejob of umpire. -Dan Zevin
Never thrust your sickle into another's corn. -Publius Syrus
Never drive through a small Southern town at 100mph with the local sheriff'sdrunken 16-year-old daughter on your lap. -Anonymous member of a chain gang
Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys themvery much. -G.K. Chesterton
Never use while sleeping. -Instruction on Conair hair dryer
Never play peekaboo with a child on a long plane trip. There's no end to thegame. Finally I grabbed him by the bib and said, "Look, it's always gonnabe me!" -Rita Rudner
Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide. -Woodrow Wilson
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in theroom. -Winston Churchill
Never stand between a dog and the hydrant. -John Peers
Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants. -Geraldo Rivera
Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts. -RuthGordon
Never pick a fight with anyone who buys ink by the barrel. -American adageabout antagonizing newspaper editors.
"They're multipurpose. Not only do they put the clips on, but they takethem off."
-Pratt & Whitney spokesperson explaining why the company charged the AirForce nearly $1000 for an ordinary pair of pliers.
"The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep."-Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live
"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We arethe president." -Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaeddocuments
"We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees." -Jason Kidd,upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks
"When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemploymentresults." -Former U.S. President Calvin Coolidge
"It's like deja vu all over again." -Yogi Berra
"China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese" -Former FrenchPresident Charles De Gaulle
"That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jack*ss,and I'm just the one to do it." -A congressional candidate in Texas
"It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I haveto beat somebody."
-Richard M. Nixon
"A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later it adds up to realmoney." -Everett Dirksen
"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." -SamuelGoldwyn
"I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them.There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians wereselfishly trying to keep it for themselves." -John Wayne
"Half this game is ninety percent mental." -Philadelphia Philliesmanager Danny Ozark
"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the publicmind." -General William Westmoreland
"If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cutright out from under your feet." -Former British foreign minister ErnestBevin
When a man goes on a date he wonders if he is going to get lucky. A womanalready knows. - Frederick Ryder
Women need a reason to have sex -- men just need a place. - Billy Crystal.
Do you know why God withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we maylove you instead of laugh at you. - Mrs. Patrick Campbell
A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four
times; her intelligence, eight times. - Sanskrit proverb
There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't thinkthere's a lot they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think,"I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked." - JerrySeinfeld
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When menhold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment. - Warren Farrell
Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let herthink she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it. - LyndonB. Johnson
God made man before woman to give him time to think of an answer for herfirst question. - Anonymous
The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. --Franklin P. Jones
2. Women's creed: Men are like linoleum. If you lay them right the firsttime, you can walk on them for 20 years.
3. Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer sex raisessome pretty good questions. -- Woody Allen
4. Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, thecourage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of thoseI had to kill because they pissed me off.
5. I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and givethe wrong answers.
6. All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should havebeen more specific. -- Jane Wagner
7. The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain,involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamuscontrols the "Four F's":
1. fighting; 2. fleeing; 3.feeding; and 4. mating.
-- Psychology professor in neurophysiology intro course
8. Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. -- Oscar Wilde
9. What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, todo the unnecessary. -- Richard Harkness, The New York Times, 1960
10. I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian becauseI hate plants. -- A. Whitney Brown
11. Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistakewhen you make it again. -- F. P. Jones
12. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn fromthe experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclinationto do so. -- Douglas Adams
13. As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not importantthat you understand what I'm doing or why you're paying me so much money.What's important is that you continue to do so. -- Hunter S. Thompson's SamoanAttorney
14. Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of whichI disapprove. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
15. My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant
16. Her kisses left something to be desired -- the rest of her.
17. Q: What did the instructor at the school for Kamikazi pilots say to his students?A: Watch closely. I'm only going to do this once.
18. If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is"God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thingto tell him is "probably because of something you did." --Jack Handey
19. In weight lifting, I don't think sudden, uncontrolled urination shouldautomatically disqualify you. --Jack Handey
20. A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Thenyou call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. "Hearthat?" you say. "That's dynamite, baby." --Also Jack Handey
21. "Sure, everyone always said 'Socrates, what is the meaning oflife?' or 'Socrates, how can I find happiness?', did anyone ever say 'Socrates,hemlock is poison.'???????" -Socrates minutes before death
22. Christian: One who believes that the New Testament is a divinelyinspired book that is admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
23. Television is called a medium. This is because it is neither rare, norwell done.
24. Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
25. The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've gotit made.
26. Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.