Subject: Situations (Page 50)

Last time I went camping I accidentally borrowed a circus tent.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Sometimes I'm so bored at a party, I'll slip myself a roofie.

comedian & author

Never position a rock near a hard place.

(1962 – ) English writer

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

(1864 – 1910) French author

When I was on acid, I’d see things like beams of light and I’d hear sounds that sounded an awful lot like car horns.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

Some people are better imagined in one's bed than found there in the morning.

(1947 – ) author, humorist & satirist

Ironic how you can’t get kids out of their beds in the morning but you can’t get them into their beds at night.

(1958 – ) Australian author

There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.

(1923 – ) German-born diplomat & scholar

I was troubled by the presence of a shoe museum because it forced me to ask a very burning question: would my body be able to physically survive the amount of dope I would need to smoke in order to visit a shoe museum?

(1974 – ) American stand-up comedian & actor

If at first you don't succeed, try try again… then quit; there's no use being a damn fool about it.

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

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.

(1955 – ) cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes)

You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today; they left a little note on the windscreen, it said ‘Parking Fine.’

(1921 – 1984) British comedian & magician

I’ve been temping at the job that laid me off, and that’s awkward because everybody knows I got canned, and they think I’ve come back to shoot them.

stand-up comedian & writer

I went to the 30th reunion of my preschool; I didn’t want to go, because I’ve put on like a hundred pounds.

(1961 – ) American stand-up comedian

Mediocrity imitates.

The day I notice a cyclist obey a stop sign is the day I'll stop enjoying watching them bounce off my hood.

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

In every organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on… and this person must be fired.

The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toilets.

American playwright, television writer & author

Never order a drink where you get to keep the glass.

novelist, screenwriter & businessman

If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, and it hits a mime, does anyone care?

(1950 – ) American cartoonist The Far Side