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Funny Quotes - Page 17

If I don't have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on.

If I don't have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on.

"8 Hilariously Candid Quotes By Jennifer Lawrence" by Aly Weisman, www.businessinsider.com. February 5, 2013.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

Quoted in People, 26 Dec. 1977. Although now associated with Tomlin, this saying appears anonymously in Robert Reisner, Graffiti (1971), in the form "Remember, even if you win the rat race - you're still a rat." Rosalie Maggio, in New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women, states that William Sloane Coffin said "Even if you win the rat-race, you're still a rat" as a chaplain at Williams College or Yale University in the 1950s or 1960s.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.24, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

"Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, p. 362, 1977.

You can observe a lot by just watching.

Quoted in Dick Schaap and Mort Gerberg's Joy in Mudville: The Big Book of Baseball Humor Reflections (p. 185)