If you're not familiar with the work of Steven Wright,
he's the guy who once said: "I woke up one morning
and all of my stuff had been stolen...and replaced by
exact duplicates."
His mind sees things differently than we do - to our
amazement and amusement.
Here are some more of his gems:
- I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
- Borrow money from pessimists - they don't expect it back.
- Half the people you know are below average.
- 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
- 42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
- A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so
good.
- A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
- If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
- All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand.
- The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse
gets the cheese.
- I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we
met.
- OK, so what's the speed of dark?
- How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?
- If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously
overlooked something.
- Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
- When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
- Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be
lazy.
- Hard work pays off in the future, laziness pays off now.
- I intend to live forever - so far, so good.
- If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
- Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet
engines.
- What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
- My mechanic told me, "I couldn't repair your brakes,
so I made your horn louder."
- Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?
- If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you
tried.
- A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
- Experience is something you don't get until just after you
need it.
- The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of
the bread.
- To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from
many is research.
- The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
- The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to
catch up.
- The colder the x-ray table, the more of your body is required
to be on it.
- Everyone has a photographic memory, some just don't have film.