oneliners

Bugs come in through open Windows

Opens up Windows, shuts up Gates.

Aspire to inspire before you expire.

I'm not as think as you drunk I am

Do it tomorrow- you made enough mistakes today

Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether

It doesn't matter whether you win or lose. What matters is whether I win or lose.

Women are more logical than men. Their minds are cleaner: they change them more often.

How is it possible to have a civil war?

Love is blind, marriage is the eye-opener

The problem is not to do things right but to find the right things to do

I said 'perhaps'and that is final!

We had a girl to stay; her name was Viginia. We called her Virgin for short, but not for long.

A man is not complete until he is married -then he is finished.

If you cross a chicken with a zebra you get a four legged dinner with a barcode.

You can't have everything... where would you put it?
A rich person is not the one who has the most, but the one who needs the least.
A poor person isn't he who has little, but he who needs a lot. (German proverb)
The Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay. Love isn't love till you give it away.

There are three kinds of people: those who can count and those who can't

Veni, vidi, visa - I came, I saw, I shopped

One day as I sat musing, sad and lonely and without a friend, a voice came to me from out of the gloom , saying: 'Cheer up, things could be worse'. So I cheered up and, sure enough, things got worse.

A journey of a thousand miles always begins with one step. (ancient Egyptian proverb)
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

to borrow a button from a bobby is a thousand times better than tomorrow mutton from a mommy

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

It's not how old you are, but how you are old.

Your problem is never really your problem, your reaction to your problem is your problem. (Brian Kinsey)

When you ASSUME, you make an ASS out of U and ME.

The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket.

You never get a second chance to make a first impression

You can't step in the same river twice.

Nothing succeeds like failure; nothing fails like success.

If you ever find the perfect Church, don't go there, or you'll ruin it.

You can lead your daughter (or son) to Horace, but you can't make her (him) think.

While men talk of killing time, slowly time kills men.

Two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different.

We don't have to change friends if we understand that friends change.

I can teach my dog any trick he wants to do!

Anyone who thinks that he is too small to make a difference, has never been in bed with a mosquito.

Many folks want to serve God, but only as advisors.

Don't attempt to run from the past, it is always behind you.

I'd rather lose a second in my life, than my life in a second.

Why is it, when a door is open it is ajar, but when a jar is open it is not adore?

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

You may not be able to turn back the clock; but you can always wind it up again.

Oscar was wild but Robert and Thornton were even wilder

A face can say many things. Especially the mouth part.

An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have: The older she gets, the more interested he is in her. (Agatha Christie)

Living a healthy life is the slowest way of dying

It is not unusual to call people after what they eat. You call the Germans Krauts and the Americans fat.

I'm a poet and didn't know it.

I'm not an organ donor, but I once gave an old piano to the Salvation Army

When the symphony was finished we rushed to the door
And boy! we felt stupid when there was coming some more!

Insanity is hereditary.You get it from your kids.

In England you ask for the bill and pay with a cheque and in America you ask for the check and pay with a bill. Love is one long sweet dream, and marriage is the alarm clock.

The First 3 Years of Marriage
In the first year of marriage, the man speaks and the woman listens.
In the second year, the woman speaks and the man listens.
In the third year, they both speak and the neighbours listen.

Time flies like an arrow and fruit flies like a banana.

I never spit in your drink; why do you smoke in my air?

I asked her how she always seemed to know the answer, and she said she had a personal teacher inside her head. "I see," I said, "you've got in-tuition."

Priests who think themselves good at their job have an altar ego.

A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco, wrapped in paper, fire at one end, fool at the other.

The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.

The brighter the light, the stronger the shadow.

People want to change, but don't want to be changed.

Life imitates television more than TV imitates life (adapted from Oscar Wilde)

Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool.

It's God's responsibilty to forgive Bin Laden...It's OUR responsibilty to arrange the meeting!

A pessimist counting his blessings: 10 ... 9 ... 8 ... 7 ...

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.

I think, therefore, I am... not related to you.

How can I miss you if you won't go away?

I keep trying to lose weight but it always finds me.

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

I love to give homemade gifts... which one of my kids do you want?

Do whatever you like, but like whatever you do!

You have the right to remain silent, so please shut up.

Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

After shaking hands with a Greek, count your fingers (Albanian proverb)

If you lost your left arm, your right arm would be left.

When I was born, I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.

I never knew my father was an alcoholic until he came home sober that one night...

I haven't spoken to my wife for 18 months - I don't like to interrupt her.

I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.

Review of a play: The play opened at 8.40 sharp and closed at 10.40 dull.

review of the musical Godspell: For those who missed it the first time, this is your golden opportunity : you can miss it again.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you're down there.
Perhaps you know why women over fifty don't have babies: They would put them down somewhere and forget where they left them.
One of life's mysteries is how one pound box of candy can make a person gain five pounds.
Every time I think about exercise, I lie down until the thought goes away.

God put me on earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind, I will live forever.
My mind not only wanders; sometimes it leaves completely.
Now I finally got my head together my body falls apart.
Time may be a great healer, but it's also a lousy beautician.
Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.
Just when I was getting used to yesterday, along came today.
The best way to keep kids at home is to make a pleasant atmosphere-and let the air out of their tires.
Families are like fudge . . . mostly sweet, with a few nuts.
Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
A baby-sitter is a teenager acting like an adult while the adults are out acting like teenagers.

Perhaps you know why women over fifty don't have babies: They would put them down somewhere and forget where they left them.

One of the life's mysteries is how a two pound box of candy can make a woman gain five pounds.

It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.

Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever.

Sometimes I think I understand everything, then I regain consciousness.

Freedom of the press means no-iron clothes.

The Weather is Here... Wish You Were Beautiful...

I have kleptomania, but when it gets bad, I take something for it.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Monotheism is a gift from the gods.

Nobody is consistent consistently.

I think I have an incredible level of credibility.

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail

"I'm not an adult - I'm a mature-age child." (Bill Collins, 2003)

At 20 you think you can save the world; at 40 you're delighted if you can save a small part of your salary.
(Daniel Worona http://danworona.50megs.com/ )

Michael Billington in the Guardian when the musical 'Godspell' returned in the theatre:
"For those who missed it the first time, this is your golden opportunity: you can miss it again."


a moslim woman should know her place,
a western woman is emancipated


Puns
A skunk fell in the river and stank to the bottom.
In the old days a suspended sentence was hanging.
There was once a cross-eyed teacher who couldn't control his pupils.
The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
She had a boyfriend with a wooden leg, but broke it off.
In a Scandinavian race the last Lapp crossed the Finnish line.
Seven days without a pun makes one weak.
Your nose is in the scenter of your face.
Some people's feet smell and their noses run.
A cardboard belt would be a waist of paper.
Vampires are always looking for their necks victim.
They had a two-door car and a Tudor house.
When a son said that his ambition was to drive an army tank his father said 'I won't stand in your way.
The day Lee became a father someone mentioned 'apparently you're a parent -- Lee'
Math teachers have lots of problems.
When the electricity went off during a storm at a school the students were de-lighted
If you step onto a plane and recognize a friend of yours named Jack don't yell out 'Hi Jack!'
When the glassblower inhaled he got a pane in the stomach.
A criminal's best asset is his lie ability.
The old doctors practice of bloodletting was all in vein.
You can tune a piano but you can't tuna-fish.
A dentist and manicurist fought tooth and nail.
The electrican was grounded by his mother.
To some - marriage is a word ... to others - a sentence.
Stealing someone's coffee is called 'mugging'.
The conductor who didn't pay his orchestra had to face the music.
Dermatologists often make rash statements.
A bicycle can't stand on its own because it is two-tired.
When he fell in the wet concrete he left a bad impression.
Being burned at the stake is a rare experience but is seldom well done.
A cat that swallowed a ball of wool had mittens.
The Loch Ness monster eats fish and ships.
There is some Confucion about the oldest religion in China.
What you seize is what you get.
When ancient wall sculptors were finished it was a relief.
Doctors feel fine on ships because they are accustomed to see sickness.
A farmer with a rip in his clothes has an overall problem.
People in Switzerland can't learn to ski without a lot of alp.
Safety goggles were invented by a peripheral visionary.
One can-tanker-ous train railed another, asking, "What are you a-freight of?"
The triangle relationship soon became a wreck-tangle.
Some planes are so cramped that passengers suffer jet leg.
A small boy went to the counter to pay for his lunch but he was a little short.
The melody kept on playing until it became a strain.
If you said you were from South America, I would not Bolivia.
I have a weight problem: I can't wait to eat! (Daniel L. Worona)
Artificial knees and elbows were developed during a joint project.
What's the definition of a will? (It's a dead giveaway).
A backwards poet writes inverse.
In democracy it's your vote that counts. In feudalism it's your count that votes.
A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
If you don't pay your exorcist you get repossessed.
With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.
Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft and I'll show you A- flat minor.
When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.
A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.
You feel stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.
Local Area Network in Australia: the LAN down under.
He often broke into song because he couldn't find the key.
Every calendar's days are numbered.
A lot of money is tainted. Ittaint yours and ittaint mine.
A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.
He had a photographic memory that was never developed.
A plateau is a high form of flattery.
The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.
Once you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall.
When an actress saw her first strands of gray hair she thought she'd dye.
Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.
Acupuncture is a jab well done.
Marathon runners with bad footwear suffer the agony of defeat.
Top selling cookbook in China: 101 Ways to Wok Your Dog.
She had a boyfriend with a wooden leg, but broke it off.

A homeless person stopped a rich man on the street. The homeless person said, "I haven’t eaten in seven days." The rich man frowned and said, "Why should I care?" The homeless person said, "Because that makes one weak."

Three brothers bought a ranch in Texas and planned to raise cattle. They couldn’t think of a name for their ranch so they asked their mother, who said, "You should name it ‘Focus.’" The brothers were puzzled. "Why?" they asked. "Because," said their mother, "‘Focus’ is where the sun’s rays meet." (Note: this joke is famous because it is a triple pun!) In physics, a focus is the point at which rays of light come together or meet. The mother’s sentence also sounds like, "Focus is the place where the sons raise meat."

Then there was the scientist who disconnected his doorbell. He wanted to win the Nobel Prize. "Nobel" sounds like "no bell."

The principal called the young cross-eyed teacher into his office. "I’m sorry to say, Ms. Jones, we’re going to have to let you go." "But why, sir? I thought I was doing a good job." "It’s simple," said the principal, "you can’t control your pupils."

When gambling became legal in the city, everyone agreed that the city was now a bettor place.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith went out to eat at a German restaurant. After the appetizer, Mr. Smith said to his wife, "That tasted awful." His wife said, "Yes, I know. And the wurst is yet to come."

Way down upon the Mississippi, two tugboat captains who had been friends for years, would always cry "Aye!" and blow their whistles whenever they passed each other. A new crewman asked his boat's mate, "What did they do that for?" The mate looked surprised and replied, "You mean that you've never heard of...an aye for an aye and a toot for a toot?"

puns in definitions
An archeologist: a man whose career lies in ruins.
UFO: Unleaded Fuel Only
Crick: The sound that a Japanese camera makes.
"Damn!" : What the fish said when it hit a concrete wall
A nervous wreck: What lies at the bottom of the ocean and twitches
Sarcasm: Quip lash
Skier: A person who jumps to contusions

Alarms: What an octopus is.
Allege: A high rock shelf
Arson: Our daughter's brother
Autobiography: A history of cars
Avowal: a, e, i, o, u
Backward: Patient rooms at the rear of a hospital
Belong: To take your time
Carpet: A dog who enjoys riding in an automobile
Cellphones: What prisoners use to call each other
Condescend: A prisoner escaping down the wall using a rope
Document: Repeating what your doctor told you in your own words
Dockyard: A physician's garden.
Dogma: A mother dog

Eclipse: What a gardener does to your hedge
Falsehood: Someone who pretends to be a gangster
Grateful: What it takes to build a good fire
Handicap: A ready-to-use hat
Ketchup: What the runners behind in a race want to do
Kinship: Your brother's boat
Laundress: A gown worn while sitting on the grass
Legend: The edge of a cliff
Minimum: A very small mother
Nitrate: Cheapest price for calling long distance
Paradox: Two physicians
Paraffins: Found on the sides of fish
Paralyze: Two untruths
Psychopath: What crazy people take when they go through the forest
Rampage: Section of a book about male sheep
Stirrup: What you do with cake batter
Subordinate Clauses: Santa's helpers
Tenure: A year after nineure
Unabated: A fishhook without a worm
Valorous: A big animal vit tusks vot lives in vater
Vanguard: A person who protects trucks
Warehouse: What a child asks when he is lost

Tom Swifties
"Play my song again!" Tom exclaimed resoundingly.
"I don't like ground coffee," Tom said instantly.
"I don't want to sleep in a cabin," Tom said with intent.
"I should have written down the proposed food supplies," Tom said listlessly.
"I wish that I had no need for government handouts," Tom said dolefully.
"My hair needs more than just shampoo," Tom said conditionally.
"Don't play a flat!" Tom said sharply.
"I didn't even notice the large angle," Tom said obtusely.
"One of the corners is cut to 89 degrees," Tom said acutely.
"I just bought a pet bird," Tom said gullibly.
"I'm not allowed to smoke at the Texaco station," Tom fumed.
"Watch me jump off of this Parisian bridge," Tom said inseinely.
"But this is my one-floor apartment," Tom said flatly.
"Who wrote Gulliver's Travels?" Tom asked swiftly.
"What metal is used to make steel?" Tom asked ironically.
"I’ll take a gin and tonic," Tom said spiritedly.
"How could I have left my uniform in my locker?" Tom barely whispered.
"Don't throw trash on the ground!" Tom said litterally.
I will now aim my bow and arrow at the apple on his head," Tom said with a quiver.
"Hi everyone, my name is Frank Lee," Tom lied rather frankly.
"I am so thirsty, I could drink that lake," Tom said dryly.
" ." he said blankly.
"Take the prisoner downstairs," Tom said condescendingly.
"I wonder what it was like, being one of Zeus's daughters," Tom mused.
"What did the Colossus of Rhodes look like?" Tom wondered.
"The pencil line needs to be drawn again," Tom remarked.
"Never steal in an Islamic country," Tom said off-handedly.
"I wish I had asked for a seat in advance," Tom said reservedly.
"I wish that couple hadn't split up," Tom said dispairingly.
"I don't like unmarried women," Tom said dismissively.
"My family lives in a mobile home," said Tom in a trailing voice.
"But I don't need to go to a psychiatrist," Tom said unshrinkingly.
"I'm really a member of the Secret Service," Tom said guardedly.
"I'm joining the National Guard!" Tom said reservedly.
"It's too hot in here!" Tom said heatedly.
"We had to amputate," Dr. Tom said disarmingly.
"Nurse, cancel my appointments for today," Tom said impatiently.
"I guess I've put on a few pounds," Tom said expansively.
"I just spent two hours in an LA traffic jam!" Tom said exhaustedly.
"Well, I finally got this army uniform on," said Tom, fatigued.
"We must find the bones of the first man!" said Professor Tom adamantly.
"Don't drink and drive!" said Tom soberly.
"This bouquet needs one more flower," Tom said lackadaisically.
"Let's turn off the light, honey," Tom proposed delightedly.
"I'm having trouble finding my way through this highway system," Tom said amazedly.
"My house shakes in the wind as if it were made of straw," Tom said balefully.
"I can never find anything good on TV," muttered Tom remotely.
"Rock music has ruined my hearing," Tom commented deftly.
"All right, take off your shoes," Tom said, accepting defeat.
"Clinton for president?" said Tom. "That's hilarious!"
"I need some fresh air!" Tom vented.

"I've just had a frontal lobotomy," said Tom absentmindedly.

Quotations
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. (Sir. Winston Churchill)

He is a modest man with much to be modest about (Churchill)

He is a sheep in sheep's clothing (Churchill)

This is not the end. It's not even the beginning of the end but it is perhaps the end of the beginning (Churchill, 10 Nov 1942)

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few (Churchill, 20 Aug 1940)

Oscar Wilde: There's only one thing worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about

Oscar Wilde: In this world there are only two tragedies: one is not getting what you want, the other is getting it.

Oscar Wilde: Of course, America had been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up

If Gladstone fell into the Thames that would be a misfortune; if anyone pulled him out that would be a calamity (Disraeli)

He is a self-made man and worships his creator (Disraeli)

Disraeli, after receiving an unrequested gift: Many thanks for your book; I shall lose no time in reading it

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. --Bob Hope

I know that there are people in this world who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that! --Tom Lehrer

I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What good would that do? --Ronnie Shakes

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. --Sam Levenson (1911-1980)

Television - a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done. --Ernie Kovacs

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. --G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist. --Aaron Machado

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places. --Henny Youngman

I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence. Edgar Allen Poe.

Scott Fitzgerald: One thing is sure and nothing surer,
The rich get richer and the poor get children

When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look; then, if they like what they see, they listen. (Pauline Frederick)

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. (Samuel Johnson)

Thou hast not half the power to do me harm as I have to be hurt (Othello, Shakespeare)

Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do (Bertrand Russell)

Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape. (Michael McGriff, M.D.)

You don't stop laughing because you grow old, you grow old because you stop laughing. (Michael Pritchard)

Albert Einstein: "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." An Irishman is never at peace except when he's fighting.

An Irishman will die before letting himself be buried outside of Ireland.

May you never live to see your wife a widow.

Gentlemen, it appears to be unanimous that we cannot agree.

God bless the Holy Trinity.

The most unpleasant thing about him is that when he isn't drunk, he's sober.

Half the lies our opponents tell about us are not true.

This piece is chock full of omissions.

A man cannot be in two places at once, unless he is a bird.

I marvel at the strength of human weakness.

I am sober enough to know I am drunk.

From now on we shall offer police jobs to qualified women regardless of sex -a New Jersey town's affirmative action statement

You couldn't get me on Mars if it were the last place on earth. -Erma Cohen

If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.

I wish the Arabs and the Jews would settle their differences like Christian gentlemen. -attributed to Arthur Balfour and others

Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable. -Torn Landry

All generalizations are bad -R.H.Grenier

The food here is terrible and the portions are too small -Woody Allan

Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it. -Irene Peter

Live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so. -Josh Billings

Wagner's music is better than it sounds. -Mark Twain

People are more fun than anybody. -Dorothy Parker

I don't want to be a millionaire. I just want to live like one. -Joe E. Lewis

Of course I can keep secrets. It's the people I tell them to that can't keep them Anthony Haden-Guest

The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep. -W. C. Fields

I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words. -Josh Billings

I distinctly remember forgetting that. -Clara Barton

We must believe in free will. We have no choice. -Isaac Bashevis Singer

There's nothing wrong with incest just as long as you keep it in the family. -Milton Mayer

Why, that's the most unheard-of thing I've ever heard of. -Joseph McCarthy

Excuse me for not answering your letter sooner, but I've been so busy not answering letters that I couldn't get around to not answering yours in time. -Groucho Marx

Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will have me as a member -Groucho Marx

"If I had known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself." (Eubie Blake on his hundredth birthday) I'll never make the mistake of turning 70 again.-Casey Stengel

It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.-Woody Allen

Thank God I am still an atheist.-Salvador Dali.
The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad.-Salvador Dali

Famous Versus

Money is not everything.
There's Master card & Visa.

One should love animals.
They are so tasty.

Love everybody.
Love every body.

Save water.
Shower with your friend.

Love thy neighbour.
But don't get caught.

Every man should marry.
After all, happiness is not the only thing in life.

A Successful man is one who can earn more than his wife spendings.
A Successful woman is one who can find such a man.

Wise never marry.
And when they marry they become otherwise.

Success is a relative term.
It brings so many relatives.

Daydream is all plans but no action.
Nightmare is all actions but no plan.

I could have been . . .

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  • a tailor

  • a musician

  • a carpenter

  • a chauffeur

  • a chef

  • a chimney sweep

  • a cobbler

  • a dentist

  • a doctor

  • an Egyptologist

  • a juggler

  • a magazine editor

  • a magician

  • a mechanic

  • a professional fisherman

  • a historian

  • a neuro-surgeon

  • a policeman

  • a postman

  • a printer

  • a psychiatrist

  • a shoe salesman

  • a sprinter

  • a swimmer

  • a fireman

  • a tailor

  • a telephone operator

  • a watch maker

  • I used to . . .

  • be a part-time hairdresser

  • be a printer

  • sell ovens

  • be a railway guard

  • be a transplant surgeon

  • work in an orange juice factory

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