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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 heck she is.
 --Ellen DeGeneris

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage.
They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
--Rita Rudner

I would love to speak a foreign language but I can't.
So I grew hair under my arms instead.
--Sue Kolinsky

I'm not into working out.  My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
--Carol Leifer

I have a great diet.  You're allowed to eat anything you want, but
you must eat it with naked fat people.
--Ed Bluestone

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first.  By the second day you're off it.
--Jackie Gleason

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 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

If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
--George Gobel

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.
--Billiam Coronel

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals;
I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
--A. Whitney Brown

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an
infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even
considering if there is a man on base.
--Dave Barry

Suppose you were an idiot...
And suppose you were a member of Congress ...
But I repeat myself.
--MarkTwain

Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student.
At least they can find Kuwait.
--A. Whitney Brown

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having
to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when
 they're eating sandwiches.
--Jim Carrey

My mom said she learned how to swim. Someone took her out in the
lake and threw her off the boat. That's how she learned how to swim.
I said,  "Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim."
--Paula Poundstone

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

Did you ever walk in a room and forget why you walked in?  I think
that's how dogs spend their lives.
--Sue Murphy

I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
--Lily Tomlin

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

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

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but
when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?
--Lily Tomlin

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

 
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