Subject: Situations (Page 16)

A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

If you drop a full can of beer, and remember to rap the top sharply with your knuckle prior to opening, the ensuing gush of foam will be between 89 and 94 percent of the volume that would splatter you if you didn't do a damned thing and went ahead and pulled the top immediately.

You can take a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.

(1890 – 1965) English comic actor, writer & director (of Laurel & Hardy)

If it looks easy, it's tough… if it looks tough, it's near impossible.

Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.

When I was 16 years old, the morning of my birthday, my parents tried to surprise me with a car, but they missed.

American comedian

You know it’s time to start using mouthwash when your dentist leaves the room and sends in a canary.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director

A lot of bars have black lights, and when a bar has black lights, everybody looks very cool… except for me because I was under the impression that the mustard stain came out.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

A hooker once told me she had a headache.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

I saw that show, 50 Things To Do Before You Die; I would have thought the obvious one was shout for help.

(1980 – ) English comedian & novelist

If you have a choice of selling shoes to ladies or giving birth to a flaming porcupine… look into that second, less painful career.

(1957 – 2007) American stand-up comedian & actor

The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up.

(1874 – 1936) English author & mystery novelist

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.

(1927 – ) magician & comedy writer

An old friend will help you move; a good friend will help you move a dead body.


Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

If the odds are a million to one against something occurring, chances are 50–50 it will.

You will save yourself a lot of needless worry if you don't burn your bridges until you come to them.

Nietzsche says that we will live the same life, over and over again… Great, I’ll have to sit through the Ice Capades again.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

I wanna hang a map of the world in my house – then I’m gonna put pins into all the locations that I’ve travelled to; but first, I’m gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so that it will not fall off the wall.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian