Subject: Activities (Page 40)

In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can’t make your children carry.

American author

There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country… the trouble is they cost a quarter.

(1881 – 1960) American columnist

I ran three miles today… finally I said, ‘Lady take your ‘purse.'

(1956 – ) American comedian

The one who snores will fall asleep first.

There is only one thing worse than dreaming you are at a conference and waking to find that you are at a conference, and that is the conference where you can't fall asleep.

People who say that money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop.

(1958 – ) Australian author

In America, it's not how much an item costs, it's how much you save.

I make no bones about it; I need eight hours a day, and at least ten at night.

(1961 – 1994) comedian

Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: eat out.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

The saying “Getting there is half the fun” became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.


Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does.

(1902 – 1963) Danish actor

Sex is like a game of bridge… if you don't have a good partner, you need a good hand.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia.

(1962 – ) English stand-up comedian & actor

Action: The last resource of those who know not how to dream.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Why would anybody want to go skiing? You could sit in the comfort of you own kitchen and break your knees with a hammer.

(1971 – ) Irish comedian, actor & writer

My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

I'm starting to jog, but every time I do jog I have 9-1 pressed into my phone, with the next ‘1’ ready to be launched in case I drop.

(1965 – ) American comedian, actor, writer & producer

Snake eyes is a gambling term… and an animal term, too.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

One time, I got pulled over at four a.m.; I was fined seventy-five dollars for being intoxicated and four-hundred for being with the Phillies.

(1935 – ) American baseball player, sportscaster, comedian & actor

We have a sock talking at our commencement; it’s kind of upsetting.