Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.
STEVEN WRIGHTWhen I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect; then they told me nobody’s perfect so I stopped practicing.
More Steven Wright Quotes
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Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7 of your life.
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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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A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
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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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You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.
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Imagine how weird phones would look if your mouth was nowhere near your ears.
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There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
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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.
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My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.
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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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Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.
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I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met.
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Why, in a country of free speech, are there phone bills?
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On the other hand, you have different fingers.
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The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
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