How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn’t live there?
STEVEN WRIGHTOne time a cop pulled me over for running a stop sign. He said, “Didn’t you see the stop sign?” I said, “Yeah, but I don’t believe everything I read”
More Steven Wright Quotes
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Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?
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Why, in a country of free speech, are there phone bills?
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Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
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No one is listening until you make a mistake.
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If a mute kid swears, should his mother wash his hands with soap?
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Half the people you know are below average.
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In my house there’s this light switch that doesn’t do anything. Every so often, I would flick it on and off just to check. Yesterday, I got a call from a woman in Germany. She said ‘cut it out’
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If a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose?
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Last night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went nuts.
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If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?
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If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
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My dental hygienist is cute. Every time I visit, I eat a whole package of Oreo cookies while waiting in the lobby. Sometimes she has to cancel the rest of the afternoon’s appointments.
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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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If Dracula can’t see his reflection in a mirror, how come his hair is always so neatly combed?
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When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child… eventually.
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