Subject: Activities (Page 27)

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

Bus: A vehicle that runs faster when you run after it and runs slowly when you are inside it.

It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

Lord Chesterfield (1694 – 1773) British statesman

I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is… and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened.

(1904 – 1973) English novelist & biographer

I was having difficulty deciding if I wanted to purchase this bed I was looking at, so the salesman told me… sleep on it.

Jewish-American stand-up comedian & writer

Whoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping.


Someone stole my antidepressants; whoever they are, I hope they’re happy.


Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia.

(1962 – ) English stand-up comedian & actor

It's like, I hate getting up in the morning, unless it's over and over and over and over again… then I'm good.

American comedian & musician

A teacher is someone who talks in our sleep!

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

If you don't write to complain, you'll never receive your order. If you do write, you'll receive the merchandise before your angry letter reaches its destination.

The weight of your pack increases in direct proportion to the amount of food you consume from it; if you run out of food, the pack weight goes on increasing anyway.

I often take exercise; why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

The slowest checker is always at the quick-check-out lane.

If these walls could talk they’d be like ‘damn bitch, you’re back in bed again!?

(1978 – ) American stand-up comedian, actress & writer

President Bush wants to spend $7 billion this year to fight the drug dealers in Colombia… but they only earn $3 billion a year; so why don't we pay them $4 billion a year not to grow the cocaine?

American comedian & writer

Except that right-side-up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby.

(1918 – 2001) American sportswriter, commentator & actor

A Smith and Wesson beats four aces.

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

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

The speed of an oncoming vehicle is directly proportional to the length of the passing zone.

I went on a job interview and the lady asked me if I’d pass a drug test; I said, “Yeah, if it’s written.”

American comedian