Thursday, October 26, 2006

Quotes from Steven Wright

If you're not familiar with the work of Steven Wright, he's the famously erudite scientist and comic who once said: "I woke up one morning and all of my stuff had been stolen and replaced by exact duplicates."

His mind sees things differently than most of us do, to our amazement and amusement.

Here are some of his gems:

1 - I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.

2 - Borrow money from pessimists -- They don't expect it back.

3 - Half the people you know are below average.

4 - 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

5 - 82.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

6 - A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.

7 - A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

8 - If you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain.

9 - All those who believe in psycho-kinesis, raise my hand.

10 - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the
cheese.

11 - I almost had a psychic girlfriend.....but she left me before we met.

12 - OK, so what's the speed of dark?

13 - How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?

14 - If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

15 - Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

16 - When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

17 - Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.

18 - Hard work pays off in the future, laziness pays off now.

19 - I intend to live forever......so far, so good.

20 - If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

21 - Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

22 - What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

23 - My mechanic told me, "I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder."

24 - Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?

25 - If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

26 - A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

27 - Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

28 - The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the
bread.

29 - To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is
research.

30 - The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.

31 - The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.

32 - The colder the x-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it.

33 - Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film.

34 - If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work?

Credit to Harry for sending this my way, thanks dude.

13 Comments:

At 7:55 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

not this i actually enjoyed!

 
At 10:02 PM, Blogger C said...

FUNNY!!! Had me and the roomies cracking up :-D

 
At 10:30 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

These are great. I have them archived in my jokes file. I was thinking about how people's last names sometimes are indicative of their personalities and/or professions. You think maybe his last name is a combination of WRY and RIGHT????

 
At 11:06 PM, Blogger anonym00kie said...

these are great!! wow one brain came up with all that.. not bad

 
At 11:06 PM, Blogger Chasidishe Shaigitz said...

ANON: Cool, so did I.

CHAYA: Glad Y'all enjoyed :)

ITSALLGOOD: I agree, I had heard a few of them before, but it still got me going.

LOL Interesting last name theory.

 
At 11:08 PM, Blogger Chasidishe Shaigitz said...

Anonym00kie: Hehe same time comment :)

Aint it amazing what one brain can do, now imagine if that guy would have a blog ;)

 
At 12:42 AM, Blogger the sabra said...

o gd i love that guy, totally brilliant. reminds me of calvin a bit.
such great lines.

 
At 12:48 AM, Blogger the sabra said...

23-HAHAHAHA :D

 
At 5:45 AM, Blogger the only way i know said...

Excellent!
also loved your previous forty twelve cartoon!

 
At 8:37 AM, Blogger socialworker/frustrated mom said...

Great ones, thanks.

 
At 5:33 PM, Blogger Faye Spalter said...

very funny. these things are awesome to read during a boring math class.

 
At 1:21 AM, Blogger heimishinbrooklyn said...

Hey, great stuff. I'll be coming back.

 
At 7:06 AM, Blogger Sarah Likes Green said...

Great quotes! That's one clever guy.

Thanks for sharing!!!

 

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