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81 Humpty Dumpty was pushed.
115 I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure.
136 ... After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. <BR>	-- H. L. Me…
223 If I were to begin life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.…
312 One of the many things Steve Jobs didn't know in those days was Cringely's Second Law, which I figu…
321 …a, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, "one when he was a boy and one when he was a man"…
365 The right word may be effective -- but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. <BR>…
374 Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anyb…
411 To count is a modern practice, the ancient method was to guess. <BR>	-- Dr. Johnson
414 The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless. <BR>	--…
426 Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a refund from the IRS, which lasts until you realize it was your …
453 There was SOMETHING that I was going to do with my life... what WAS it?
542 He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes...
549 I asked Mum if I was a gifted child... she said they certainly wouldn't have paid for me.
628 What was the best thing before sliced bread?  <BR>	-- George Carlin
639 …ge said, "joint custody," I assumed I was gonna get to keep the papers and the stash, but it turns…
642 When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man ar…
649 Plato was a bore. <BR>	-- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
671 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and is widely r…
691 NEW YORK, NY. A man was knocked down by a car and got up uninjured, but lay back down in front of t…
694 …idiot?;  <BR>	-- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy
775 …- I am almost done. <BR>	-- Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), when informed that his wife was dying
806 …details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying such a laugh was money in a man's po…
831 Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. …
847 I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. <BR>	-- …
862 I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it a…
872 I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know. <BR>	-- Mark Twain
921 Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with…
926 …ook up at them and discuss 'bout whether they was made or just happened. Jim he allowed that the s…
927 …ed to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just h…
932 When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are…
954 Alaska was originally a large place located way the hell past Canada, but this proved to be highly …
968 Archeologists digging in what was once ancient Sumeria recently found the remains of a primitive st…
974 …f the carcass of the eight-ton dead whale that washed up on Oregon's beach was placed upon the Ore…
978 …ese creatures are employed by automobile dealerships ("No thanks really, I was just look... HEY!  …
982 The metric conversion was clearly a good idea, and when the government started putting up metric hi…
993 Finally, when I was fully confident that, if necessary, I could take the boat out myslef and get ev…
995 … afternoon of our cruise to demonstrate the finer points of seamanship. He was on our boat for a t…
998 … I thought children just naturally knew how to catch a ball, that catching was an instinctive biol…
999 I was genuinely surprised by the hostile reaction to my column about England, and all I can say to …
1001 … malnutrition caused by wisely refusing to eat English food, much of which was designed and manufa…
1004 …hs at a time. My family and I arrived by modern commercial aviation, which was infinitely worse. <…
1006 … become too easy to duplicate with modern color photocopiers - a fact that was made all too clear …
1008 … of very famous people accomplished great things after 50. For example, it was during the post-50 …
1017 …was a survey in which researchers asked tourists how come they didn't want to come back to New Yor…
1019 The United Nations reception area was filled with representatives of nations large and small, rich …
1025 …was filmed entirely in black and white. The nation needed a very small unit of money, because back…
1035 As you know if you ever studied the famous Greek philosopher Aristotle, he was easily the most bori…
1040 There was respect in Robert's eyes as I strode out to face the spider. As well there should have be…
1047 …rian Thucydides often said when he was alive, "History is a bunch of things that happened in the p…
1048 January 1, 1000, was the historic day that humanity celebrated the dawn of our current millennium. …
1049 …ism was based on a "ladder-type" of organizational structure, similar to Amway. You started out on…
1051 In 1337 France, which was then under King Philip VI, was invaded by England, which was then under K…
1052 …urning people at the lump of peat, which took forever. Eventually the fuel was exhausted, and the …
1053 And thus it was that in 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain and discovered America, which h…
1054 …lization to the indigenous peoples of Africa and the Americas (the message was: "Hi!  We own you!"…
1057 Another important scientific advance occurred in 1614 when the logarithm was invented by Scottish m…
1059 At this time France was experiencing its glory years under Louis XIV, who became known as the "Sun …
1060 …ered through the Great Plague of London, which was followed in 1666 by the Great Fire of London, w…
1062 In Egypt, soldiers discovered the Rosetta Stone (daughter of Sol and Esther Stone). This was very s…
1067 …sidents, burned the Internal Revenue Service to the ground. Tragically, it was rebuilt, and eventu…
1070 …ke an anvil, thus confirming the widespread scientific belief that gravity was still working. <BR>…
1071 In 1860, Lincoln ran for president (slogan: "He's Taller Than You") and was elected, only to see th…
1073 In 1869, the Suez Canal was finally completed, which meant that for the first time ships could go f…
1074 …he device was a pencil sharpener. Embarrassed, Edison vowed that one day he would invent an electr…
1075 …enjoy a hearty laugh at their own expense when they realized that San Juan was in Puerto Rico. His…
1077 It was also an Age of Exploration. In 1909, Robert E. Peary reported that he had reached the North …
1080 In the arena of scientific progress, a German-born physicist named Albert Einstein was thinking up …
1081 The nation was plunged into the Great Depression, which resulted in joblessness, homelessness, pove…
1082 There was also hope in the Middle East, where the state of Israel was born in a happy celebration h…
1090 …imary objective is to purchase clothes that are the size she wore when she was 19 years old. This …
1093 …was developed by the prestigious Educational Testing Service, which is located in Princeton, N.J.,…
1113 …. And we have good reason to be tired: We won World War II. No, wait, that was our parents. <BR>	-…
1118 Sitting around for no reason in the guise of being engaged in productive work was the first real gu…
1119 …d to the collapse of the Egyptian empire, but everybody involved agreed it was worth it. <BR>	-- D…
1120 …values and standards; a rapid descent into chaos and near-barbarism. So it was a pretty good time …
1127 … avoid falling into the stereotype-toy trap. When my son, Rob, was born, my philosophy was that he…
1140 … guys devote so much of their brain to remembering vital facts such as who was named MVP of the 19…
1165 If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
1180 …n-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works…
1182 … its own way. The Old one gives us a picture of these people's Deity as he was before he got relig…
1184 …shed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no suc…
1226 Don't believe the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing -- it was here first. <BR>	--…
1285 Never tell a woman that you didn't realize she was pregnant unless you're certain that she is. <BR>…
1333 How old would you be if you didn't know how old you was?  <BR>	-- Leroy "Satchel" Paige, (1906-1982…
1339 If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself. <BR>	-- Eubie [Ja…
1363 The young don't know what age is, and the old forget what youth was. <BR>	-- Seumas MacManus, Irish…
1405 He that hath no fools, knaves, or beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning. <BR>	-- …
1413 The longer I live, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good…
1445 I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained …
1464 Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger, you may rest assured that he was abnorm…
1501 Thou shall not kill. Thou shall not commit adultery. Don't eat pork. I'm sorry, what was that last …
1566 … every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in l…
1589 It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leader…
1703 When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence,…
1863 I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason. <BR>	-- Plato (428-347 B.C.), The …
1897 I was in a supermarket and I saw Paul Newman's face on salad dressing and spaghetti sauce... I thou…
1898 I was a vegetarian until I started leaning towards sunlight. <BR>	-- Rita Rudner, U.S. comedienne
1950 When I was a kid, I had two friends, and they were imaginary and they would only play with each oth…
1988 I was raised by just my mom. See, my father died when I was eight years old. At least, that's what …
1990 If I was two-faced, would I be using this one?  <BR>	-- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), US President
1995 My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments. <BR>	-- John Barrymore, (1882-1942), U.…
2017 Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these. <BR>	-- Ovid (43 B.C.-17 A.D.), Rom…
2019 The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here. <BR>	-- Finley …
2080 If I didn't panic when I found out that I was a human being, I'm never going to. <BR>	-- James Thur…
2088 No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature. <BR>	-- Alan Alex…
2107 Why did Nature create Man?  Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure …
2121 During the mid-1980's dairy farmers decided there was too much cheap milk at the supermarket. So th…
2125 I always figured that being a good robber was like being a good lawyer. <BR>	-- Willie Sutton, (190…
2159 In the first place, God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards. <BR>	-- Mar…
2172 I wept when I was born and every day explains why. <BR>	-- Spanish proverb
2285 I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late. <BR>	-- Max K…
2286 I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose …
2293 It is as hard to arrange a good marriage as it was to divide the Red Sea. <BR>	-- Talmud: Sotah, 2A
2295 It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't. <BR>	-- Spike Milligan, (1918-2002),…
2296 Jesus was a bachelor. <BR>	-- Don Herold (1889-1966), U.S. humorist
2356 And Nathan, being sick, trusted not in the Lord, but sent for a physician; and Nathan was gathered …
2364 It was difficult for the Angel of Death to kill everybody in the whole world, so he appointed docto…
2377 …was one of the most absent men I think I ever met in society. One day he met me in the street, and…
2393 God created man because he was so disappointed in the monkey. <BR>	-- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
2419 Man was created a little lower than the angels, and has been getting a little lower ever since. <BR…
2420 Man -- a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. <BR>	-- Mark Twain (1835-1…
2470 Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing -- and that was the closest our country h…
2496 There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody. <BR>	…
2501 When I was young I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness. I was right. <BR>	…
2509 Mother always said that honesty was the best policy, and money isn't everything. She was wrong abou…
2539 Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. <BR>	-- …
2581 Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never …
2599 …ing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better …
2613 Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from hist…
2762 I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afterno…
2775 Why was I born with such contemporaries?  <BR>	-- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
2826 … our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the Un…
2846 I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits…
2876 Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that o…
2893 If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try…
2909 I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy…
2916 It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the b…
2928 When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room. <BR>	-- Woody Allen …
2967 I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his…
2970 One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war …
2984 I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child …
3016 It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up. <BR>	-- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
3038 The important thing was to love rather than to be loved. <BR>	-- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
3039 The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wheref…
3040 There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to t…
3098 As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula. <BR>	-- Dave Barry
3100 Because of the level of my chess game, I was able - even against a weak opponent, such as my younge…
3116 For many years the National Pretend Speed Limit was fifty-five miles per hour, metric equivalent: 3…
3131 …tion, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover…
3135 I was a young person once, shortly after the polar ice caps retreated, and I distinctly recall beli…
3143 …ed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparen…
3151 It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own perso…
3158 My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible. <BR>	-- Da…
3197 The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition. <BR>	-- Dave Barry
3204 …20,000 vacuum tubes, occupied 1,500 square feet and weighed 40 tons; there was also a laptop versi…
3215 …nvention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine inventi…
3217 …to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro. <BR>	-- …
3274 The last person who quit or was fired will be held responsible for everything that goes wrong - unt…
3289 Any task worth doing was worth doing yesterday. <BR>	-- Grossman's Lemma
3323 If it was bad, it'll be back. <BR>	-- Grelb's Law
3534 Those days are dead and gone and the eulogy was delivered by Perl. <BR>	-- Rob Pike (on one tool fo…
3536 …package containing a toothbrush sparked a bomb scare. You see why the crew was frightened, they're…
3549 In the years since the start of what was first called the Microsoft Network, Mr. Gates has tried do…
3551 I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized…
3558 …omers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling…
3563 There never was a chip, it is said, that Bill Gates couldn't slow down with a new batch of features…
3577 …an Playboy, "Baywatch" and Linux combined. As most people know, the series was the inspiration for…
3737 I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.
3747 I thought I was wrong once, but it turns out I was mistaken.
3927 They call it "pms" because "mad cow disease" was already taken.
3954 We found Jesus - he was behind the sofa all along.
3960 When I was young I was told that anyone could be Prime Minister. Now I'm beginning to believe it.
4005 Seven Deadly Sins?  I thought it was a to-do list!
4009 In the beginning, there was nothing. Then it exploded.
4037 And the mark of the beast was 666. Which meant everyone could read and write his file.
4046 Of course, that was long ago, but at the time it seemed like the present. <BR>	--P. Steiner
4097 Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in…
4099 When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, "Well…
4128 …ected his disembodied consciousness into the consensual hallucination that was the matrix... <BR>	…
4137 …ieved that we'd have a black, female Secretary of State, much less one who was a conservative warm…
4139 … protected abstract virtual base pure virtual private destructor, and when was the last time you n…
4143 It was the kind of place where a state legislator could actually say, "If the English language was …
4150 …ed him; and now usually he hid it in a hole in the rock on his island, and was always going back t…
4190 …was speeding down the highway. Cop pulled him over and says "Son, do you have any idea how fast yo…
4202 I did a theatrical performance about puns. It was a play on words.
4203 They told me I had type A blood, but it was a Type O.
4214 I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me!