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WEEKLY WIT

Tuesday
May292007

Our Meritocracy

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government,intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Ambrose Bierce
Thursday
May242007

Another Perspective

People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit.

George Burns
Monday
May142007

Perspective

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

Robert Orben
Sunday
May132007

Time and Space

A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.

Author unknown
Thursday
May032007

Deliberation

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

Ambrose Bierce

Tuesday
Apr242007

People Power

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.

Ethel Mumford

Tuesday
Apr172007

Management Tip

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

Casey Stengel
Monday
Apr092007

A Real Friend

A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body.

(Anonymous)

Monday
Mar192007

Fitness

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

Fred Allen

Friday
Mar162007

Loyalty

"Charley, lissena me. Before you talk to the blacks or the hispanics, certainly you'll offer the franchises to our people and, if they're ready to put up more money than the blacks or hispanics - then they get it. I don't needa tell you, loyalty comes first with me."

From Prizzi's Glory by Richard Condon

Tuesday
Feb272007

Art

I inherited a painting and a violin which turned out to be a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius. Unfortunately Rembrandt made lousy violins and Stradivarius was a terrible painter.

Tommy Cooper

Monday
Feb262007

Arithmetic matters

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

George Burns

Sunday
Feb182007

Be not unkind

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

Tuesday
Feb132007

Fashion Statement

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Mark Twain

Tuesday
Feb062007

Second Thoughts

I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking but then I thought "What the hell good would that do ?"

Ronald Shakes

Wednesday
Jan312007

We sometimes forget

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Rex Stout

Wednesday
Jan242007

Equanimity

It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Woody Allen

Monday
Jan152007

He said it 100 years ago

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

 

(Ambrose Bierce - an American)

Wednesday
Jan102007

Avert eyes !

My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses.

Drinks right out of the bottle.

(Henny Youngman)
Sunday
Jan072007

Count your blessings

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman ?

Woody Allen