Subject: Situations (Page 50)

I like to play chess with bald men in the park, although it's hard to find 32 of them.

(1956 – ) American comedian

Good times end too quickly. Bad times go on forever.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

Anyone who says, 'You had to be there,' should just not have told you the thing in the first place because it's not funny.

(1968 – ) American actor & comedian

Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?

(1919 – 1991) American comedian & actor

I think statues are great; they show what great people would look like if a bird sh*t all over them.

(1973 – ) American comedian

Never murder a man who is committing suicide.

How come Miss Universe is only won by people from Earth?

(1976 – ) English stand-up comedian & actor

If all else fails, try the obvious.

Don't corner something that is meaner than you.

If my dead father was alive to hear that, it would kill him.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch.

Poor Jesus; first he's crucified, then he has to spend his Saturdays with Jerry Falwell.

(1959 – ) American stand-up comedian

He gave her a look you could have poured on a waffle.

(1885 – 1933) columnist & writer

Whatever happens, look as if it was intended.

The worst sensation I know of is getting up at night and stepping on a toy train.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

If you don't care where you are, you ain't lost.

I stayed in a really old hotel last night; they sent me a wake-up letter.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

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

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Birthday parties always end in tears.