Subject: Activities (Page 27)

I’ve been to almost as many places as my luggage!

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

The only sport where you can spend an arm and a leg to break an arm and a leg. 

(1945 – ) American humorist (co-founder of National Lampoon)

Here we have a game that combines the charm of a Pentagon briefing with the excitement of double-entry bookkeeping.

internet columnist

I’d like to marry a nice domesticated homosexual with a fetish for wiping down Formica and different vacuum-cleaner attachments.

(1960 – ) English comedian, novelist & actress

The Cocktail Party: A device for paying off obligations to people you don’t want to invite to dinner.

(1916 – 1986) American minister & author

I have a friend who is a juggler. If I'm at his house, I don't like to take food from him, if it's in threes.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali; he was using a dotted line… he caught every other fish.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Our culture teaches us to buy things we don't need, with money we don't have, to impress people we don't like.

(1946 – 2007) American entrepreneur

I’m eighteen years behind on my ironing.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

I go from stool to stool in singles bars hoping to get lucky, but there's never any gum under any of them.

(1956 – ) American comedian

I quit smoking ’cause I want to live, and now that I’m not smoking, I don’t want to live anymore.

comedian

For [my husband], getting out of bed in the morning is a career move.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

How fast does a zebra have to run before it looks gray.

(1973 – ) American comedian

A truly reckless driver is one who passes you when you are already exceeding the speed limit.

How do you get off of a non-stop flight?

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

The one who least wants to play is the one who will win

I donated blood today… that's what I call getting an AIDS test.

(1981 – ) American Comedian

Fishing: A venerable contest in which modern man pits his intelligence and technology against the native wit of primitive aquatic vertebrates, and generally finishes second.

There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.

(1979 – ) American actress, comedian & writer

The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

When I was a kid, you ate, and you drank, and you passed out and nobody woke you up and said, 'Let's go shopping.'

(1948 – ) stand-up comedian, actor, author & playwright