37th Edition

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Comedians' Best Quotes

  • "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

  • "You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over?? Movie Day."

    -- Jay Mohr

  • "Thou shall not kill. Thou shall not commit adultery. Don't eat pork. I'm sorry, what was that last one?? Don't eat pork. God has spoken. Is that the word of God or is that pigs trying to outsmart everybody?"

    -- Jon Stewart

  • "You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking 5 miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the heck she is."

    -- Ellen DeGeneres

  • "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

  • "If you ever see me getting beaten by the police, put down the video camera and come help me."

    -- Bobcat Goldthwait

  • "Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait."

    -- A. Whitney Brown

  • "I'm a psychic amnesiac. I know in advance what I'll forget."

    -- Michael McShane

  • "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

  • "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

  • "Ever wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?"

    -- John Mendoza

  • "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

  • "I don't know what's wrong with my television set. I was getting C-Span and the Home Shopping Network on the same station. I actually bought a congressman."

    -- Bruce Baum

  • "Every time a baseball player grabs his crotch, it makes him spit. That's why you should never date a baseball player."

    -- Marsha Warfield

  • "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

  • "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

  • "My grandfather's a little forgetful, but he likes to give me advice. One day, he took me aside and left me there."

    -- Ron Richards

  • "I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else."

    -- Lily Tomlin

  • "Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?"

    -- Rita Rudner

  • "The ad in the paper said 'Big Sale. Last Week.' Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rubbing it in."

    -- Yakov Smirnoff

  • "Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease."

    -- Bill Maher

  • "A woman broke up with me and sent me pictures of her and her new boyfriend in bed together. Solution? I sent them to her dad."

    -- Christopher Case

  • "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

  • "I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her."

    -- Ellen DeGeneres

  • "USA Today has come out with a new survey: Apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population."

    -- David Letterman

  • "I was in a supermarket and I saw Paul Newman's face on salad dressing and spaghetti sauce... I thought he was missing."

    -- Bob Saget

  • "If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology."

    -- Jay Leno

  • "Chihuahua. There's a waste of dog food. Looks like a dog that is still far away."

    -- Billiam Coronell

  • "I just broke up with someone and the last thing she said to me was, 'You'll never find anyone like me again!' I'm thinking, 'I should hope not! If I don't want you, why would I want someone like you?' "

    -- Larry Miller

  • "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

  • "If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either."

    -- Dick Cavett

  • "I have such poor vision I can date anybody."

    -- Garry Shandling

  • "I was a vegetarian until I started leaning towards sunlight."

    -- Rita Rudner

  • "I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific."

    -- Lily Tomlin

  • "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

  • "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 I think. 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 just a little bit?"

    -- Garry Shandling

  • "Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography."

    -- Paul Rodriguez

  • "My mother calls at five-thirty in the morning. I'm not a dairy farm. I don't like phone calls before six in the morning."

    -- Richard Lewis

  • "I don't do drugs anymore 'cause I find I get the same effect just by standing up really fast."

    -- Johnathan Katz

  • "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

The Facts of Life

  • The 2 most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
  • If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
  • Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by moving from where you left them to where you can't find them.
  • Money can't buy happiness... But it sure makes misery easier to live with...
  • Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bull before.
  • Nothing in the known universe travels faster than a bad check.
  • A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn.
  • It has recently been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
  • Always remember to pillage BEFORE you burn.
  • If you are given an open-book exam, you will forget your book.
  • The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.
  • Paul's Law: You can't fall off the floor.
  • Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid, too.
  • A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell and make you feel happy to be on your way.
  • Law of Probability Dispersal: Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.

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