Subject: Activities (Page 40)

The difficulty of finding any given trail marker is directly proportional to the importance of the consequences of failing to find it.

If your wife wants to learn to drive, don’t stand in her way.

(1911 – 1980) humorist, writer, television host & journalist

What do gardeners do when they retire?

(1928 – 2003) English entertainer

Rummage Sale: Where you buy stuff from somebody else’s attic to store in your own.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Snake eyes is a gambling term… and an animal term, too.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

The way I see it… If you need both of your hands for whatever it is you’re doing, then your brain should probably be in on it too.

(1958 – ) comedian, actress & television host

I do clean up a little if company is coming; I'll wipe the lipstick off the milk container.

(1952 – ) comedian

Golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

I dreamt I was forced to eat 25lb of marshmallows; when I woke up, my pillow was missing.

(1919 – 1985) Scottish comedian & actor

Some people talk in their sleep; lecturers talk while other people sleep.

(1913 – 1960) French-Algerian author, philosopher & journalist

Exercise is a dirty word; every time I hear it, I wash my mouth out with chocolate.

(1922  – 2000) American cartoonist (Peanuts)

My wife wants sex in the back of the car… and she wants me to drive.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

Pushing fifty is exercise enough


The local density of mosquitos is inversely proportional to your remaining repellent.

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch on fire or block the refrigerator door, let it be; no one cares, why should you?

(1927 – 1996) columnist & humorist

Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time; the man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

Sleep is death without the responsibility.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

I don’t understand the whole concept of a massage; you get a woman to rub all over every single part of your body except the one part you really want rubbed on.

(1968 – ) American comedian, actor & country music artist

I didn’t intend for this to take on a political tone; I’m just here for the drugs.

(1921 – ) former First Lady of the United States & actress

Exercise: The joy of flex.