Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he’ll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it.
STEVEN WRIGHTI went for a walk last night and she asked me how long I was going to be gone. I said, ‘The whole time.
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If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?
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Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do, write to them? Why don’t they just put their pictures on the postage stamps so the postmen can look for them while they deliver the mail?
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If Dracula can’t see his reflection in a mirror, how come his hair is always so neatly combed?
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Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7 of your life.
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If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
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Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a racing car not called a racist?
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If it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.
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You know what scares me? When you have to be nice to some paranoid schizophrenic, just because she lives in your head.
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When I turned two I was really anxious, because I’d doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I’m six I’ll be ninety.
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Consciousness: That annoying time between naps.
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How do you get off a non-stop flight?
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The older you get, the more you learn to see what you’ve been taught to see. When you’re a kid, you see what’s there.
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Imagine how weird phones would look if your mouth was nowhere near your ears.
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I couldn’t repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.
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Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.
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