Subject: Miscellaneous (Page 41)

When I think of all the hours and hours of my life I have spent watching television, it makes me realize, Man, I am really rich with television.

He was wound up tighter ‘en a bango string.

If any man says he hates war more than I do, he better have a knife, that’s all I have to say.

Mom always told me I could be whatever I wanted to be when I grew up, within reason; when I asked her what she meant by within reason, she said that I ask a lot of questions for a garbage man.

No more sense than last year’s bird nest.

Why is there so much pressure to spend Independence Day with other people?

American actress, comedian, writer & musician

Like a peach-orchard bull

I remember the last thing my nan said to me before she died; ‘What are you doing here with that hammer?’

(1968 – ) English comedian & actor

In the first castles, I bet a common mistake was putting the torture room next to the master bedroom. Boy, you’re just not going to get good sleep that way.

To beat the band

About as useful as buttons on a dishrag

… I hadn’t the heart to touch my breakfast; I told Jeeves to drink it himself.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist

Like a buzzard in a tree waiting for a mule to die

Nobody here but us chickens.

He’s as poor as Job’s turkey.

One good thing about hell, at least, is you can probably pee wherever you want to.

Children need encouragement: if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way he develops a good, lucky feeling.

He's nuttier than a squirrel shit.

It was so sweet backstage, you should have seen it: the Teamsters were helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo.

(1945 – ) comedian, actor, writer, playwright & musician

If you put his brain in a gnat's butt, it would fly backwards.

Right as rain.