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"Balls" said Pooh, in an attitude a bit more forthright than usual.

 

"Life without you would be like a broken pencil."

"How's that?"

"Completely pointless." - Blackadder

 

Afternoon: that part of the day we spend worrying about how we wasted the morning.

 

Ah'm thinkin'! . . . And muh head hurts. - Yosemite Sam

 

All my life I said I wanted to be someone ... I can see now that I should have been more specific.

 

Am I getting smart with you?  How would you know? – Dilbert's Words of Wisdom by Scott Adams

 

An optimist is someone without much experience.

 

Any man can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment. - Robert Benchley

 

Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes.

That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.

 

Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution. - Robert Zend

 

Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business. - Dave Barry

 

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality. - Clifton Fadiman

 

Chickens: the only animals you eat before they are born and after they are dead.

 

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. - Mark Twain

 

Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.

 

Do something unusual today. Accomplish work on the computer.

 

Drive carefully! Remember, it's not only a car that can be recalled by its maker.

 

Ed Okin:  Are we under arrest or what?

FBI Agent:  I think you fall into the 'or what' category. – Into the Night

 

Enjoy your job, make lots of money, work within the law.  Choose any two.

 

Everyone is a genius at least once a year.

The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

 

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes. - Edgard Varese

 

Fairy tales: horror stories for children to get them used to reality.

 

Farnsdick's Corollary: After things have gone from bad to worse the cycle will repeat itself.

 

For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made.

It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.

- Rita Mae Brown

 

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. - Elbert Hubbard

 

Gumperson's Law: The probability of anything happening is in inverse ratio to its desirability.

 

Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?

 

He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. - Bertolt Brecht

 

Here's something to think about: how come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery?'

- Jay Leno

 

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. - W. C. Fields

 

How many men does it take to change a roll of toilet paper?

We don't know, it's never happened.

 

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. - Margaret Thatcher

 

I can please only one person per day.  Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either.

Dilbert's Words of Wisdom by Scott Adams

 

I don't have an attitude problem.  You have a perception problem.

Dilbert's Words of Wisdom by Scott Adams

 

I don't suffer from stress.  I'm a carrier. – Dilbert's Words of Wisdom by Scott Adams

 

I have great faith in fools ... self-confidence my friends call it. - Edgar Allan Poe

 

I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing

the rich would have kept more of it for themselves. - Bruce Grocott

 

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!

- Tom Lehrer

 

I never make mistakes. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.

 

I think it's wrong that only one company makes Monopoly.

 

I used to wake up at 4 AM and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours.

I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion

that it must be an allergy to consciousness. - James Thurber

 

I want to die peacefully, in my sleep, like my grandfather.

Not screaming, terrified, like his passengers.

 

I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence.

There's a knob called 'brightness,' but it doesn't work. - Gallagher

 

If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier? - Mark Twain

 

If it's the thought that counts, why are there fingers? - Winnie the Pooh

 

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames

they would say it was because I couldn't swim. - Margaret Thatcher

 

If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers

 

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask?

Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? - Scott Adams

 

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity. - Bill Vaughan

 

If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer? - Steven Wright

 

If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from

'The Beverly Hillbillies.' - Dave Barry

 

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box

when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it. - Terry Pratchett

 

I'm an optimist, but I don't think it helps.

 

I'm easily satisfied with the very best. - Winston Churchill

 

I'm sick of following my dreams.

I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later. - Mitch Hedberg

 

In case of doubt, make it sound convincing.

 

Is it because light travels faster than sound that some people appear bright until they speak?

 

Is reading in the bathroom considered multi-tasking?

 

Is the fear of flying groundless?

 

It has been said that man is a rational animal.

All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. -  Bertrand Russell

 

It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing.

This is why it takes several million guy sperm cells, each one wriggling in its own direction,

totally confident it knows where it is going, to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is,

relative to them, the size of Wisconsin. - Dave Barry

 

It's always darkest before dawn.

So if you're going to steal your neighbor’s newspaper, that's the time to do it.

 

It's not so much that I want to succeed in life; it's just that I don't want to fail.

 

I've had a wonderful evening. This wasn't it, but I've had one. - Groucho Marx

 

Junk is something you've kept for years and throw away three weeks before you need it.

 

Man's greatest inventions were touted to save mankind time and allow him to make more money. Today we work longer, make more money, keep less of it. But I am told tomorrow will be better.

 

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. - Russell Baker

 

Modem: how a Southerner asks for seconds.

 

Murphy's First Law: Nothing is as easy as it looks.

 Murphy's Second Law: Everything takes longer than you think.

 Murphy's Third Law: Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

 Murphy's Fourth Law: If there is a possibility of several things going wrong,

the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.

 Murphy's Fifth Law: If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

 Murphy's Sixth Law: If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.

 Murphy's Seventh Law: Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.

 O'Toole's Commentary on Murphy's Law: Murphy was an optimist.

 

My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

 

Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn

to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. - Mary Ellen Kelly

 

Nobody believes the official spokesman but everybody trusts an unidentified source. - Ron Nessen

 

Nothing makes a person more productive than the last minute.

 

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something,

wearing stripes with plaid comes easy. - Albert Einstein

 

People who claim they don't let little things bother them

have never slept in a room with a single mosquito.

 

Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.

 

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. - Don Marquis

 

Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long. - Ogden Nash

 

Red meat is NOT bad for you. Now blue-green meat, THAT'S bad for you! - Tommy Smothers

 

Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you won't either. - Joseph Fischer

 

Sometimes the majority just means all the idiots are on the same side.

 

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare. - Fred Allen

 

The 50-50-90 rule: anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right

there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong. - Andy Rooney

 

The best argument against democracy

is a five minute conversation with the average voter. - Winston Churchill

 

The certain proof that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe

is that no one has bothered to make contact with us.

 

The more things change, the more they remain ... insane. - Michael Fry and T. Lewis

 

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he's a baby. - Natalie Wood

 

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

- Robert Frost

 

The time to relax is ... when you don't have time for it. - Sidney J. Harris

 

They certainly give very strange names to diseases. - Plato

 

They say love is around every corner. I must be walking in circles.

 

This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets. - George Bernard Shaw

 

To err is human; to really foul things up requires a computer.

 

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

- Albert Einstein

 

Vegetarians eat vegetables. Beware of humanitarians.

 

Vinylocity: the strange atmospheric force that makes the shower curtain

blow towards you while trying to shower.

 

We are born naked, wet, and hungry. Then things get worse ....

 

We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards

could produce the complete works of Shakespeare;

now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. - Robert Wilensky

 

What would men be without women?  Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. - Mark Twain

 

What's another word for thesaurus? - Steven Wright

 

When it comes to procrastinating, I do it right away.

 

When they put Unknown at the end of a quote it means

they probably don't know how to spell anonymous.

 

When will the rhetorical questions end? - George Carlin

 

Whenever anyone says 'theoretically' they really mean 'not really.'

 

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings,

they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things,

not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. - Margaret Halsey

 

Why was the blonde so happy when she finished the puzzle in three months?

On the box it said 3-6 years.

 

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. - James Thurber

 

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. - Henny Youngman

 

Be Yourself   Dollars and Sense   Don't Give Up   Duh!   Education/Experience/Etc.

Friendship, Love, and ...   Good Wishes   Huh?   I Feel Better Now ...

In the beginning, God ...   Life ... An Owner's Manual   Mental Health

Ouch!   Silence is Golden   Smile!   Take Courage

The Fountain of Youth   The Losing Game   To Tell the Truth

War and Peace   Wise Words   Wish I'd Said That