Subject: Activities (Page 35)

Do I lift weights? … Sure, every time I stand up.

(1946 – ) singer, songwriter, author & actress

Boxing is a great exercise… as long as you can yell 'cut' whenever you want to.

(1946 – ) American actor

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won’t get much sleep.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

Whatever carrousel you stand by, your baggage will come in on another one.

My friend has difficulty sleeping, but I can do it with my eyes closed.

Jewish-American stand-up comedian & writer

Sucker: Is this a game of chance?

Fields: Not the way I play it, no.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.

(1927 – ) American cartoonist (Momma)

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

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.

writer

You might be a redneck if… you've ever cut your grass and found a car.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.

(1891 – 1980) novelist & painter

My dad is Irish and my mum is Iranian, which meant that we spent most of our family holidays in Customs.

(1969 – ) American singer-songwriter & musician

It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming.

(1902 – 1968) novelist

I was watching the London Marathon and saw one runner dressed as a chicken and another runner dressed as an egg… I thought: ‘This could be interesting.’

comedian

People who say that money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop.

(1958 – ) Australian author

Get a bicycle’ you will not regret… if you live.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

I'm busier than a stump full of ants.

Bargain: A transaction in which each party thinks he has cheated the other.

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

(1922  – 2000) American cartoonist (Peanuts)

Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing?

(1928 – ) British journalist, writer & columnist

Self-abuse is the sincerest kind.

David Gerrold (1944 – ) science fiction author