Some Thoughts On Life

  • Raising teenagers is like trying to nail Jell-O to a tree.
  • There is always a lot to be thankful for if you take time to look for it. For example, I am sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt.
  • Reason to smile: Every seven minutes of every day, someone in an aerobics class pulls a hamstring.
  • The best way to keep kids at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere... and let the air out of their tires. -Dorothy Parker
  • Car sickness is the feeling you get when the monthly car payment is due.
  • Families are like fudge .. Mostly sweet with a few nuts.
  • Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
  • Laughing helps. It's like jogging on the inside.
  • Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy.
  • My mind not only wanders, sometimes it leaves completely.
  • The more you complain, the longer God lets you live.
  • One day I shall burst my buds of calm and blossom into hysteria.
  • If you can remain calm, you just don't have all the facts.
  • Eat a live toad first thing in the morning, and nothing worse can happen to you the rest of the day!
  • You know you're getting new when you stoop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you're down there.
  • Life's golden age is when the kids are too new to need baby-sitters and too young to borrow the family car.

    More deep thoughts

  • If you mixed vodka with orange juice and milk of magnesia, would you get a Phillip's Screwdriver?
  • Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack?
  • If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?
  • Why do women wear evening gowns to nightclubs? Shouldn't they be wearing night gowns?
  • If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
  • Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?
  • Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It's just stale bread to begin with.
  • When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say?
  • Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist, but a person who drives a race car not called a racist?
  • Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites?
  • Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?
  • If horrific means to make horrible, does terrific mean to make terrible?
  • Why isn't 11 pronounced onety one?
  • "I am " is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do " is the longest sentence?
  • If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked and dry cleaners depressed?
  • Do Roman paramedics refer to IV's as "4's"?
  • Why is it that if someone tells you that there are 1 billion stars in the universe you will believe them, but if they tell you a wall has wet paint you will have to touch it to be sure?
  • If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?
  • If people from Poland are called "Poles," why aren't people from Holland called "Holes?"

    More celebrity quotes

  • Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. -- Red Buttons
  • Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window. -- Steve Bluestone
  • I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain. -- Carol Leifer
  • The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. -- Roger Simon
  • I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets. -- Dave Edison
  • Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place. -- Johnny Carson
  • It's not hard to tell we was poor when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline. -- George Lindsey
  • I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the planet. That may be. But I think there's one other thing that separates us from animals. We aren't afraid of vacuum cleaners. -- Jeff Stilson
  • The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three Best friends. If they are okay, then it's you. -- Rita Mae Brown
  • Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem. Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash. -- Jerry Seinfeld
  • 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 a psychotic tone, "I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have to kill you too." -- Jake Johansen

    From Steven Wright

  • Black holes are where God divided by zero.
  • All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand.
  • Early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
  • I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she me before we met.
  • OK, so what's the speed of dark?
  • How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink?
  • If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
  • Support bacteria -- they're the only culture some people have.
  • Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm
  • When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
  • Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
  • Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.
  • Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.
  • Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.
  • Many people quit looking for work when they find a job.
  • I intend to live forever -- so far, so good.
  • Join the Army, meet interesting people, kill them.
  • My mind is like a steel trap -- rusty and illegal in 37 states.
  • If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
  • Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
  • If I worked as much as others, I would do as little as they.
  • 24 hours in a day ... 24 beers in a case ... coincidence?
  • Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
  • I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.
  • When I'm not in my right mind, my mind gets pretty crowded.
  • Boycott shampoo! Demand the REAL poo!
  • Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?
  • What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
  • I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out.
  • I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.
  • Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?
  • If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
  • If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.
  • A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
  • Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
  • For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.
  • No one is listening until you make a mistake.
  • Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.
  • The colder the X-ray table, the more of your body is required on it.
  • The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.
  • The severity of the itch is proportional to the reach.
  • To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
  • Two wrongs are only the beginning.
  • You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.
  • The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
  • Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life.
  • The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.
  • A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
  • If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before.
  • Change is inevitable....except from vending machines.
  • A fool and his money are soon partying.
  • Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.
  • If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.
  • Drugs may lead to nowhere, but at least it's the scenic route.
  • I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
  • Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.
  • Borrow money from pessimists-they don't expect it back.
  • Half the people you know are below average.
  • 99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
  • 42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
  • A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
  • Today I met with a subliminal advertising executive for just a second.
  • Quantum mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of.
  • The only substitute for good manners is fast reflexes.
  • Never do card tricks for the group you play poker with.
  • To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.
  • Change is inevitable except from vending machines.
  • Get a new car for your spouse -- it'll be a great trade
  • Always try to be modest and be proud of it.
  • How many of you believe in telekinesis? Raise my hand...
  • Love may be blind but marriage is a real eye-opener.
  • Simple Thoughts
  • Save the whales. Collect the whole set.
  • A day without sunshine is like, well, night.
  • I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.
  • When the chips are down, the buffalo is empty.
  • Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it.
  • I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe.
  • Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.
  • He's not dead, he's electroencephalographically challenged.
  • He's always late. His ancestors arrived on the June Flower.
  • You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted, then used against you.
  • I wonder how much deeper would the ocean be without sponges.
  • Honk if you love peace and quiet.
  • Pardon my driving, I am reloading.
  • Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
  • Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
  • If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?

    Norm Peterson's (of Cheers) Greatest Hits

  • "What's shakin', Norm?" "All four cheeks and a couple of chins."
  • "What's new, Normie?" "Terrorists, Sam. They've taken over my stomach and they're demanding beer."
  • "What would you like, Normie?" "A reason to live. Give me another beer."
  • "What'll you have, Normie?" "Well, I'm in a gambling mood, Sammy. I'll take a glass of whatever comes out of the tap." "Looks like beer, Norm." "Call me 'Mister Lucky."
  • "Hey, Norm, how's the world been treating you?" "Like a baby treats a diaper."
  • "What's the story, Mr. Peterson?" "The Bobsey Twins go to the brewery. Let's cut to the happy ending."
  • "Hey, Mr. Peterson, there's a cold one waiting for you." "I know. If she calls, I'm not here."
  • "What's going on, Mr. Peterson?" "A flashing sign in my gut that says, 'Insert beer here.'"
  • "Whatcha up to, Norm?" "My ideal weight if I were 11 feet tall."
  • "How's it going, Mr. Peterson?" "Poor." "I'm sorry to hear that." "No, I mean pour."
  • "How's life treating you, Norm?" "Like it caught me sleeping with its wife."
  • "Women. Can't live with 'em, pass the beer nuts."
  • "What's going down, Normie?" "My butt cheeks on that bar stool."
  • "Pour you a beer, Mr. Peterson?" "Alright, but stop me at one ... make that one-thirty."
  • "How's it going, Mr. Peterson?" "It's a dog-eat-dog world, Woody, and I'm wearing Milk Bone underwear."
  • "What's the story, Norm?" "Boy meets beer. Boy drinks beer. Boy meets another beer."
  • "Can I pour you a beer, Mr. Peterson?" "A little early, isn't it, Woody?" "For a beer?" "No, for stupid questions."

    Dan Quayle quotes (these are real)

  • "If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
  • "Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child."
  • "Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts."
  • "Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe."
  • "What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."
  • "The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century."
  • "I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change."
  • "One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'."
  • "May our nation continue to be the beakon of hope to the world." -- The Quayles' 1989 Christmas card. [Not a beacon of literacy, though.]
  • "Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things."
  • "We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward."
  • "I have made good judgments in the Past. I have made good judgments in the Future."
  • "The future will be better tomorrow."
  • "We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world."
  • "People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history."
  • "I stand by all the misstatements that I've made."
  • "We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe."
  • "Public speaking is very easy."
  • "I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican."
  • "I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix."
  • "A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls."
  • "When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame."
  • "Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it." -- reported in Esquire, 8/92
  • "We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur."
  • "For NASA, space is still a high priority."
  • "Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children."
  • "The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make."
  • "We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made."
  • "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
  • "[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system."
  • "It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago."
  • "The loss of life will be irreplaceable." -- on the San Francisco earthquake

    Famous Last Words

  • "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." -- Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
  • "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
  • "I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." -- editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957
  • "But what ... is it good for?" -- Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip
  • "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." -- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
  • "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." -- Western Union internal memo, 1876
  • "The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" -- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s
  • "The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible." -- a Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
  • "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" -- H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927
  • "I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper." -- Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in "Gone With The Wind"
  • "A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make." -- Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies
  • "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." -- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962
  • "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." -- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895
  • "If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this." -- Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" Notepads
  • "So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'" -- Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer
  • "Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools." -- 1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work
  • "You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across all of your muscles? It can't be done. It's just a fact of life. You just have to accept inconsistent muscle development as an unalterable condition of weight training." -- Response to Arthur Jones, who solved the "unsolvable" problem by inventing Nautilus
  • "Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy." -- Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859
  • "Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." -- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929
  • "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre
  • "Everything that can be invented has been invented." -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
  • "Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction." -- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872
  • "The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon." -- Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873
  • "640K ought to be enough memory for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981

    Random thoughts

  • Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?
  • Does the Little Mermaid wear an algae bra (algebra)?
  • Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?
  • How do I set my laser printer on stun?
  • How is it possible to have a civil war?
  • If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?
  • If God dropped acid, would he see people?
  • If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
  • If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest have to drown too?
  • If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2?
  • If work is so terrific, how come they have to pay you to do it?
  • If you’re born again, do you have two belly-buttons?
  • If you ate pasta and antipasta, would you still be hungry?
  • If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?
  • Is a castrated pig disgruntled?
  • Why are hemorrhoids called "hemorrhoids" instead of "asteroids"?
  • Why is it called tourist season if we can’t shoot at them?
  • Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?
  • What happens when none of your bees wax?
  • Where are we going? And what’s with this handbasket?

    Read between the lines

  • Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: " I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever." -- Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA contest
  • "Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff. " -- singer Mariah Carey
  • "Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana ... The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what they are." -- Matt Lauer on NBC's Today show, August 22
  • "I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law." -- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes.
  • "I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body." -- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward
  • "Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country." -- Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, D.C.
  • "They're multipurpose. Not only do they put the clips on, but they take them off." -- Pratt & Whitney spokesperson explaining why the company charged the Air Force nearly $1000 for an ordinary pair of pliers.
  • "It's like deja vu all over again." -- Yogi Berra
  • "It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody." -- Richard M. Nixon
  • "The government is not doing enough about cleaning up the environment. This is a good planet." -- Mr. New Jersey contestant when asked what he would do with a million dollars.
  • "Things are more like they are now than they ever were before." -- Former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • "A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later it adds up to real money. " -- Everett Dirksen
  • "A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." -- Samuel Goldwyn
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