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Abortion

* It serve me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard. ~ Dorothy Parker

Absentmindedness

* “… people were so confused that they’d stolen things, but never one so confused that they’d paid twice.” ~ Baroness Phillips

Accident

* What an accident! I had the right of way but the other guy had the truck.

I never had an accident till I bought a car.

He had a bad accident. He tried to fly his plane through a tunnel without checking the train schedules.

“So your uncle fell down the stairs.”
“Yes, he wanted to come down anyway.”

“Mommy, Daddy just fell off the roof!”
“I know, dear; I saw him pass the window.”

* “It is the overtakers who keep the undertakers busy.” ~ William Pitts

Action

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. ~ Arabian proverb

Some men are heavy and stupid from indigested learning. ~ Thomas Huxley (ig)

Adam and Eve

* Adam and Eve had no mother-in-law. No wonder the place is a paradise.

* Adam never had to listen to Eve tell about the other men she could have married.

* Eve: “Do you love me?”
Adam: “Who else?”

* It wasn’t the apple on the tree that caused all the trouble – it was the peach on the ground.

* The only man who ever enjoyed falling leaves was Adam.

* Eve was the first in the world to say “Dear, please turn over a new leaf!”

Adultery

Thou shall not admit adultery.

Adversity

There are moments when everything goes well; don’t be frightened, it won’t last. ~ Jules Renard

Advertising

* Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising. ~ John Lahr

* The art of advertising – untruthfulness combined with repetition. ~ Freya Stark

* Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark: you know what you are doing, but nobody else does. ~ E.W.Howe

* Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half. ~ John Wanamaker

Advice

* If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don’t need advice.

* When good advice goes in one ear and out the other, it leaves a vacuum in between.

* The trouble with good advice is that it usually interferes with your plans.

Advice: the suggestions you give someone else which you hope will work for your benefit. ~ Ambrose Bierce

‘What would Jesus do?’ may be a good philosophy of life for some, but I find that it rarely helps me decide how much to tip a hooker. ~ Charles Gulledge

A never-failing way to get rid of a fellow is to tell him something for his own good. ~ Kin Hobbard

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. ~ Harry S.Truman

Find out what you don’t do well, then don’t do it. ~ Alf

The average bride gets enough advice to last her for several husbands.

* These few advice is enough for you to last a few marriages.

* To avoid burning your hands in hot water, feel the water before putting your hands in.

* The best cure for a hangover is to drink black coffee the night before instead of the morning after.

Tip for doctors: In case of amnesia, collect the fee in advance.

Advice to people about to get married: Don’t!

* Advice to single girls: Never look for a husband – look for a single man.

* Mechanic: “My advice, sir, is to keep the oil and change the car!”

* Advice is something everybody gives but few take.

* The best time to buy a used car is when it’s new.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them. ~ Harry S. Truman

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. ~ Teddy Roosevelt

Don’t ever slam a door; you might want to go back.

If everything seems to be coming your way, you’re probably in the wrong lane.

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. ~ Kehlog Albran

When in charge, ponder. When in trouble, delegate. When in doubt, mumble. ~ James Boren

Three little sentences will get you through life. Number one: Cover for me. Number two: Oh, good idea, boss. Number three: It was like that when I got here. ~ Homer Simpson

* When I was a small boy, my father told me never to recommend a church or a woman to anyone. ~ Edmund G. Love

* When a man seeks your advice he generally wants your praise. ~ Lord Chesterfield

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it. ~ Syrus

Age / Aging

* When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not. ~ Mark Twain (ig)

You take care of every day – let the calendar take care of the years. ~ Ed Ywnn

* Age is something that makes wine worth more and people worth less.

* Age is mostly a matter of mind. If you don’t mind it, it doesn’t matter.

Ask any woman her age and nine out of ten will guess wrong.

It’s always tough to tell a woman’s age – at least for her.

* Her real age is the only secret a woman would keep.

* You should never trust a woman who tells her real age – a woman who would tell that, would tell anything.

If you really want to learn a woman’s true age, ask somebody who doesn’t like her.

* Forty was the most difficult age for her to pass – it took her eight years.

* Twenty years from now the modern girl will be five years older.

Growing old isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.

Why is it that a person your own age always looks older than you?

* Finally she admitted she was forty… but she didn’t say when.

* The three ages of men: underage, overage and average.

I really don’t know much about growing old. After all, I never did it before.

* You will always stay young if you live honestly, eat slowly, worship faithfully, and lie about your age.

I don’t mind growing old. It’s the increase in age that makes me sick.

My uncle lived to be 100, and he owes it to mushrooms. He never ate them.

Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs.

* My wife is now 60. I’ll split two for one and get two 30s.

* I knew her 40 years ago and she looked just like she looks today: Old.

Old? He is at the age when all phone numbers in his little black book are doctors.

Old? He gets tired brushing his teeth.

She must be 28 years old. I counted the rings under her eyes.

He dropped something on the floor and had to wait till he had to tie his shoelaces to pick it up.

* The only thing worse than being old and bent is being young and broke.

* One figure that’s always on the up and up is a woman’s estimate of her neighbor’s age.

Most women won’t lie about their age – they just refuse to talk about it.

* On man’s birthday, he takes one day off. On woman’s birthday, she takes one year off.

* Every woman tries to take a few years off her age and add it on to that of another woman.

* He always remembers his wife’s age but always forgets her birthday.

“I wish I had been born in the Dark Ages.”
“So do I. You look terrible in the light.”

* “I don’t look 35, do I?”
“No, but you did when you were.”

* “Do you remember when you were born?”
“No, I was too young.”


* “Did she tell you her age?”
“Partly.”

You know what ages a man – boredom. ~ Marcello Rubini

At twenty we worry about what others think of us; at forty we don’t care about what others think of us; at sixty we discover they haven’t been thinking about us at all.

After eighty, there are no enemies, only survivors. ~ David Ben-Gurion

By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it. ~ George Burns

Aim

Ours is a world where people don’t know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it. ~ Don Marquis

Brother, whatever be your goal: keep your eyes upon the donut, and not upon the hole! ~ Dr Murray Banks

Air-Conditioning

This place is air-conditioned. I’ve never seen air in this condition.

We have an automatic air-conditioner. Every time the weather gets very hot it automatically breaks down.

* I have 5 years full guarantee on my new air-conditioner – if I don’t use it.

* My repairman refused to come and fix my air-conditioner. Claims it was too hot in my apartment.

* Air conditioning is most useful during months that have no ‘R’ in them.

Alaska

* Alaska is great if you happen to be a polar bear.

You can tell when it’s summer in Alaska – the snow is wetter.

Alcohol

* Most probably any alcoholic can’t buy insurance because of alcohol was found in their urine. This guy was rejected by insurance company because of urine was found in his alcohol.

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world. ~ Louis Pasteur

* The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk. ~ Dorothy Parker

I distrust camels and anyone else who can go a week without a drink. ~ Joe E. Lewis

I’ve conquered that goddamn willpower of mine. Gimme a double Scotch. ~ Don Marquis

Alimony

* He who loves and runs away may still be the one who has to pay!

* There are only two ways to avoid alimony: either stay single or stay married.

* My wife keeps reminding me that her allowance isn’t as big as her alimony would be.

* If I don’t pay alimony this month, can my wife repossess me?

Anger

* You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. ~ Indira Ghandi

 

Anniversary

Anniversaries are like martinis: After a few you don’t bother to count them.

Today I’m celebrating an anniversary – I’ve been broke for seven years.

Antique

I nearly got killed yesterday. I went to an antique shop and asked: “What’s new?”

* She was so old every time she went to an antique show someone tried to buy her.

Antiques are things one generation buys, the next generation gets rid of, and the following generation buys again.

* “I’m a well-known collector of antiques.”
“I know. I’ve seen your wife.”

Apartment

I live in a small, modern apartment. So I have very little room to complain.

In our apartment we have a kitchen area, a sleeping area and a bathroom area – all in the same area.

The walls in my apartment are so thin that I can hear the people next door complaining about the thin walls.

* The walls of our apartment are so thin. I once asked my wife a question and got four different answers.

The walls in our apartment are so thin that whenever my wife peels onions the people next door cry.

They call them high-rise apartments because the rent rises sky-high.

Army

* I joined the navy to see the world and spent four years in a submarine.

* Never lose your head in a battle. You won’t have a place to put your helmet.

* I couldn’t even enjoy the war in peace when I was in the army. My wife kept sending me nagging letters.

The best way to stay out of the army is to join the navy.

* She had a heart like the U.S. Army – open for all men between the ages of 18 and 35.

* I was thrown out of the submarine service. I was caught sleeping with the windows open.

We had five famous generals: General Motors, General Electric, General Foods, General Mills, and General Nuisance.

* “What were you in civilian life?”
“Happy, sir!”

* “Would you like to join the submarine service?”
“No, sir! I can’t sleep with the windows closed.”

* “What is the worst month for soldiers?”
“A long March.”

Art / Artist

* A modern artist is one who throws paint on a canvas, wipes it off with a cloth and sells the cloth.

* It’s easy to recognize a modern painting. It’s the one you can’t recognize.

* It’s easy to understand modern art. If it hangs on the wall, it’s a painting. If you can walk around it, it’s a sculpture.

* An art school is a place for young girls to pass the time between high school and marriage.

* Artist to the model: “Quick, take off all your cloth. My wife is back.”

The best way to tell if a modern painting is completed is to touch it. If the paint is dry, it’s finished.

Rembrandt painted 700 pictures and Americans have all 7,000 of them.

Modern art is when you buy a picture to cover a hole in the wall – and then decide the hole looks much better.

Association

* A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates..(ig)

 

Assurance

* The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte..

 

Aviation

This is a budget airline, instead of showing movies they show snapshots of the pilots.

This is a budget airline, you have to have the exact change to get on the plane.

This airline is so eager to please you, if they don’t have what you want, they’ll send it to you airmail.

* This airline was so poor, while they showed movies the pilot came around selling popcorn.

* This airline was so poor, to entertain the passengers the stewardess told jokes.

* This airline is so poor, they showed coming attractions of movies that would be shown on other airlines.

* This airline is so poor, they show slides instead of movies.

I wonder why our pilot just jumped out the window with his parachute. Maybe we’re in trouble and he went out to get help.

On this budget airline, they show silent films so they won’t disturb the sleeping passengers.

Jet travel lets us see less and less of more and more. Faster and faster.

An airplane is the only place where you can’t walk out on a dull movie.

We had a tough flight; the plane was bouncing around all night. The only person who fell asleep was the pilot.

The jets are so fast nowadays, it’s possible to have breakfast in New York and then arrive in Los Angeles to find nobody awake yet.

I refuse to fly. I have a terrible fear of movies.

* It costs less and less each year to fly to Europe, and more and more to get to the airport.

What bothers me is – if those space scientists are so smart, why do they count backwards?

This airline is so cheap, all passengers have to chip in to buy gas.

* I never travel by plane. The long trip to the airport makes me car-sick.

* These new planes are so fast, you have to set the control for landing before taking off.

* People who fly look down on people who don’t fly.

* I have a fear of heights. Whenever I fly I ask the pilot to stay on the runway as long as possible.

* Every year it takes less time to fly across the ocean and longer to drive to work.

I even get dizzy looking at my airplane ticket.

No one has ever complained of a parachute not opening.

* There’s still a bit of risk in aviation – the taxi ride from home or the city to the airport.

Believe me, if you have to fly, go by plane!

* This couple is so cautious they won’t fly in the same plane. They even take separate escalators in stores.

* It will soon take only two hours to get around the world – one hour for the flying and one hour to get to the airport.

* “I hate to be up there in a plane.”
“I’d hate to be up there without one.”

* “Look, the people way down there look like ants.”
“They are ants. Our plane is still on the runway!”

“Do you have any experience in flying?”
“I fell out of a window once.”