"Relationships are hard. It's like a full-time job, and we should treat
it like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they should
give you two weeks' notice. There should be severance pay, and before they
leave you, they should have to find you a temp."
--Bob Ettinger
"A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills
than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: Duh."
--Conan O'Brien
"In elementary school, in case of fire you have to line up quietly in
a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic? Do tall
people burn slower?"
--Warren Hutcherson
"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
"If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either."
--Dick Cavett
"I was a vegetarian until I started leaning towards sunlight."
--Rita Rudner
"The Swiss have an interesting army. Five hundred years without a war
.. Pretty impressive. Also pretty lucky for them. Ever see that little
Swiss Army knife they have to fight with? Not much of a weapon there. Corkscrews.
Bottle openers. 'Come on, buddy, let's go! You get past me, the guy in
back of me, he's got a spoon. Back off! I've got the toe clippers right
here!' "
--Jerry Seinfeld
"Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I'm halfway through my
fishburger and I realize, Oh my God....I could be eating a slow learner.."
--Lynda Montgomery
"What do people mean when they say the computer went down on me?"
--Marilyn Pittman
"I met a new girl at a barbecue, very pretty, a blond Ithink. I don't
know, her hair was on fire, and all she talked about was herself. You know
these kind of girls: 'I'm hot. I'm on fire. Me, me, me.' You know. 'Help
me, put me out.' Come on, could we talk about me justa little bit?"
--Garry Shandling
"Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography."
--Paul Rodriguez
"I don't do drugs anymore 'cause I find I get the same effect just by
standing up really fast."
--Johnathan Katz
"When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the
Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?"
--Robin Williams
"Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but
to accept God's final word on where your lips end."
--Jerry Seinfeld
I don't believe in a risk free society where the thrills of life are
sacrificed for the safety of existence.
- Author Unknown
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage.
They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
Rita Rudner
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries."
The girl at the counter said, "Would you like some fries with that?"
Jay Leno
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second
day you're off it.
Jackie Gleason
Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
Red Buttons
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and
anyone going faster than you is a maniac.
George Carlin
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five
miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the
hell she is.
Ellen DeGeneres
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
Carol Leifer
I would love to speak a foreign language but I can't. So I grew hair
under my arms instead.
Sue Kolinsky
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not caught
dead in otherwise.
Roger Simon
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax, tomorrow
you'll be afraid to cough.
Pearl Williams
Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation
Army instead. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy
it back for seventy-five cents.
William Coronel
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
Never moon a werewolf.
Mike Binder
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
George Gobel
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him
in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple
If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would
probably be Labor Day Weekend.
--Doug Lars
I know that there are people in this world who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that!
--Tom Lehrer
I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then
I thought: What good would that do?
--Ronnie Shakes
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. --Rod Serling
Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving
birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
--Sam Levenson (1911-1980)
Television - a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done.
--Ernie Kovacs
Always remember this: If you don't attend the funerals of your friends,
they will certainly not attend yours.
--H.L. Mencken
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells
us the truth about its author.
--G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the United States,
unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine millimeter bullet.
--Dave Barry
This isn't right. It isn't even wrong.
--Wolfgang Pauli,
On a paper submitted by a physicist colleague Today you can go to a
gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They
must think toilet paper is worth more than money.
--Joey Bishop
The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate
--Franklin P. Jones
Red meat is NOT bad for you. Now, blue-green meat, that's REALLY BAD
for you.
--Tommy Smothers
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends
thought I didn't exist.
--Aaron Machado
I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going
to those places.
--Henny Youngman
The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can
be the designated driver.
--Jay Leno
It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win
or lose.
--Darrin Weinberg
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
--H.L. Mencken