Just couldn't stay away, huh? That's okay, I can't get enough either. I keep re-reading these things all the time. Useless bits of things that they are, but they sure do make you think, huh?

o O (hmm.... I think better with an oreo in my hand and one in my mouth. Wonder where they could be??????)

Philosophy - Quotes

1.Why is there always one in every crowd? If you took all the ones in every crowd
and put them in another crowd, will there be one in that crowd?
2.Why is nothing as easy as it looks?
3.Why do we sometimes say that something is a definite possibility? Which is it?
4.Why is it that whenever you let the cat out of the bag, you usually wind up in the
dog house?
5.Relatively speaking, aren't we are all related?
6.Why is it that the most important things in life, aren't things?
7.Is grass really greener on the other side?
8.If quitters never win, and winners never quit, then who is the fool that first said
"quit while you are ahead"?
9.If you keep trying to prove Murphy's Law, will something keep going wrong?
10.If practice makes perfect, and nobody's perfect, why practice?
11.If everyone is an unique individual, isn't it not unique to be an individual?
12.If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, does he have a hard time seeing?
13.Is it possible to get away from it all? Don't you always go someplace?
14.Does it matter if it doesn't matter?
15.Does anybody ever vanish with a trace?
16.Is there such a thing as a true lie?
17.Is wetter REALLY better?
18.Generally, aren't all generalizations false?
19.They say marriages are made in heaven. Is this because that's also where thunder
and lightning are made?
20.What if life is a joke and we don't get it?
21.If two wrongs don't make a right, why not try three? 
22.Is it not better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it?
23.Why do hidden flaws never remain hidden? 
24.They say that behind every successful man, there stands a woman. Could it be that
in front of that woman, stands a man who keeps getting in her way?  

Philosophy - Other

1.If you decided to not tell the truth all the time, would you be telling the truth?
2.What's the sound a name makes when it's dropped?
3.Is it possible to have deja vu and amnesia at the same time?
4.Is it possible to proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means?
5.Is it possible to reminisce with people you don't know?
6.Is it possible to think of Nothing?
7.Since we always find something we lost the last place we look, why don't we just
look there first?
8.What comes next?
9.Is it possible to believe that there is such a thing as non-existence?
10.What is the sound of one hand clapping?
11.Why does it seem that everyone has a scheme that will not work?
12.Why does it seem that whenever we finally get it all together, we forget where we
put it?
13.Why is "if" the middle word in life?
14.Why is it that everyone is always someplace else?
15.Why is it that no matter where you are, you're here?
16.Why is nothing quite so unexpected as the truth?
17.Why is origin at the end, if it means the beginning?
18.Why is Roseanna Roseanna Danna always right when she says "Ya know, There's
always Something"?
19.What happens if you're scared half to death twice?
20.Did you ever wonder whether having children is hereditary? After all if your
parents didn't have any, then you probably won't either!
21.Why does something always happen ?
22.Could it be that everything we see is just a shadow cast by that which we do not
see?
23.Is it possible to be totally partial?
24.Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend?
25.Have you noticed that nostalgia isn't what it used to be?

Miscellaneous

1.Why can't we ever Sit to be corrected?
2.Why do good guys finish last?
3.Why can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop?
4.Why do some displays of I love you only valentine cards indicate that they are
available in multi-packs?
5.Why do they put those little stickers on escalators that read Passengers Only?
Who else will be using them?
6.Why do we call them Sanitary Landfills? You won't find me having a picnic there!
7.Why do we have to say I DO at a wedding when we know we won't remember what
we agreed to a year later?
8.Why do we have to wander through a maze of ropes at an airport or bank when we
are the only person in line?
9.Why give her diamonds? She won't LIVE forever...
10.In the zodiac, why is Libra, the Scales, the only inanimate symbol?
11.Why is it considered necessary to nail down the lid of a coffin?
12.Why not put missing children on postage stamps?
13.Why would anyone want to be called Later?
14.Why does everything become a "something" or a "whatever"?
15.Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?
16.How can someone "draw a blank"?
17.How old do you have to be before you can't cut the mustard?
18.I seen a sign that read "Clean Dirt Only". How is that possible?
19.What does Santa do at a house with no chimney?
20.Is Marx's tomb a communist plot?
21.Why is it that if you miss one issue of any magazine, it will be the issue containing
the article, story, or installment you were most anxious to read?
22.Why do we say love hurts? Love never hurts. It's the absence of love that hurts.
23.Why do we call it a 2x4 when it is really 1 1/2" x 3 1/2" ?
24.If the nights in Alaska are 6 months long, how long are sleepovers?
25.If a tin whistle is made of tin, what are fog horns made of?
26.Does China have an "America Town?"
27.Why do some cemetarys have a sign that reads "One Way - Do Not Enter" ?
28.When we say we want to complete our Family History, do we really mean that? 
29.Where does the fire go when the fire goes out?
30.Who puts those "Thin Ice" signs out there?
31.Where does Santa hide his claws?
32.Just what is a Conniption Fit?
33.If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2?
34.Where is Old Zealand? 
35.Are there any unguided missiles? 
36.Could crop circles be the work of a cereal killer?
37.Is misinformation more appealing than misterinformation?
38.Why is it that when you want a nice souvenir, you find a great shell in a gift shop,
but some yo-yo has affixed a ten-cent thermometer to it?
39.If a tree falls in the woods and there is no one around to hear it, do the other
trees laugh at it?

Weather

1.When the snow melts in spring, why do you always see articles of clothing beside
the parking lots?
2.Why Does the Wind Blow?
3.Why do we often say: "Close the window, it's cold outside." Nevertheless, after
the window is closed, it's still cold outside?
4.Why is it that the faster you drive, the harder it rains?
5.Why is it that when we were kids the snow in winter was much deeper?
6.Why is it that when you have an umbrella with you, it doesn't rain, but if you don't
have one, then it normally does?
7.Why give the temperature of the airport? No one lives there!
8.Where does the white go when the snow melts?
9.Why is it that as soon as you get ready to paint your deck, the rain clouds start
forming?
10.When it rains, the sky is completely covered in clouds. How does the rain get
through?
11.Why do we tend to raise our shoulders when we're out in the rain? Is it not gonna
get wet if you raise them?
12.They say that rain is often known as soft water. Does this mean that hail is soft?
And when a lot of rain occurs quickly, why do we say it comes down hard? Which is
it?
13.Is it possible to be so hot in some places that the people who live there have to live
in other places?
14.How do you know that no two snowflakes are alike?

Time

1.When we wake up at 5:00 AM, we say we got up Early, but when we go to bed at
the same time, we say we went to bed Late. Which is it?
2.When you travel west, you gain an hour every time you cross a time zone. If you
traveled far enough and fast enough, would you travel back in time?
3.Why are today's rough times always tomorrow's good old days?
4.Why do people ask how long you are going to be gone on vacation? Won't you be
gone the whole time?
5.When they first invented the clock, how did they know what time it was to set it?
6.Why do people say they'll be back in a few minutes and then come back two hours
later?
7.Why do people without a watch look at their wrist when you ask them what time it
is?
8.Why do the minute hands on school clocks always click backward before
advancing?
9.When all is said and done, do we cease to exist?
10.Why does it always seem to take longer coming back than it does to get there?
11.Why does it take less time to do something right then it does to explain why you
did something wrong?
12.Why do we say that Time passes? Aren't we the ones getting older? Perhaps time
stands still!
13.If you are standing directly on the line between two time zones, and it is 12:00 on
one side and 1:00 on the other, is it 12:30 where you are standing?
14.A Maine restaurant displays a sign that reads Open 7 days a week and weekends.
Exactly what calendar do they go by?
15.Can time exist in a motionless universe?
16.Does killing time harm eternity?
17.Have you ever noticed that the people who are always trying to tell you, "There's a
time for work and a time for play", never find the time for play?
18.If I save time, when do I get it back?
19.If time heals all wounds, how come the belly button stays the same?
20.Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun. How are they able to
make out the numbers?
21.If yesterday were today, would today be tomorrow?
22.What does "it" mean in the sentence "What time is it?"?
23.If you had the time, isn't everywhere within walking distance?
24.If you had time for everything, what would you do when you were done?
 
 


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