Subject: Communication » Language (Page 6)

I have been called too vague by you know who… but you know the old saying…

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

I hope God speaks English; if I get up to heaven and have to point at a menu, I'm gonna be pissed.

(1975 – ) American stand-up comedian & television host

Why are hemorrhoids called “hemorrhoids” instead of “assteroids”?

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

(1928 - ) American pianist, writer, composer & music producer

Like most comics, I just broke up with my girlfriend… the reason we broke up is because I caught her lying – under another man.

(1964 – ) American stand-up comedian

I once dated a weather girl, we talked up a storm.

(1966 – ) American stand-up comic

What do people mean when they say the computer went down on me?

comedian, commentator, radio host, reporter & writer

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary.

web cartoonist (Sheldon)

Clairvoyant: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron, namely, that he is a blockhead.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Men get laid, but women get screwed.

(1908 – 1999) English writer

Acquaintance: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

(1940 – 1992) English writer

I'm the master of low expectations.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

When cheese gets it's picture taken, what does it say?

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

Don't use a run-on sentence you got to punctuate it.

England and America are two countries separated by a common language.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

When the Iraq war started … little did George Bush know.

(1972 – ) Anglo-Irish comedian, writer & actor

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

She went into the hospital after being bitten by a spider in a bathing suit.

(1908 – 1997) German-born teacher, academic & humorist

On the other hand… you have different fingers.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer