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Thought of the Week For
the week of 19 January 2020 "What's another word for Thesaurus?" - Steven Wright
For the week of 12 January 2020 "If you want your children to listen, try talking softly - to someone else."
For the week of 5 January 2020 "The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've
got it made."
For the week of 29 December 2019 "Never
have more children than you have car windows." For the week of 22 December 2019 "I
bought my brother some gift-wrap for Christmas. I took it to the Gift Wrap department and told them to wrap it, but in a different
print so he would know when to stop unwrapping."
For the week of 15 December 2019 "I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done."
For the week of 8 December 2019 "I never said most of the things I said."
For the week of 1 December 2019 "I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already."
For the week of 24 November 2019 "A day without sunshine
is like, you know, night."
For the week of 17 November 2019 "Skiing
combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face."
For the week of 10 November 2019 "This nation will remain the land of the free only as long as it is home of the brave."
For the week of 3 November 2019 "Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined." - Samuel Goldwyn
For the week of 27 October 2019 "I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, but there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood
kids."
For the week of 20 October 2019 "One advantage of talking
to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening."
For the week of 13 October 2019 "I never did very well in Math. I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers
literally."
For the week of 6 October 2019 "We are
all here on Earth to help others. What on Earth the others are here for I don't know."
For the week of 29 September 2019 "Work is a necessary evil to be avoided."
For the week of 22 September 2019 "There's only two things you can start without a plan: a riot and a family, for everything else you need
a plan."
For the week of 15 September 2019 "To those of you
who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the 'C' students, I say you too may one day
be President of the United States."
For the week of 8 September 2019 "Every
day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work."
For the week of 1 September 2019 "I'm trying to read
a book on how to relax, but I keep falling asleep."
For the week of 25 August 2019 "I'm
an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get divorced, I keep the house."
For the week of 18 August 2019 "Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV." - Jerry Seinfeld
For the week of 11 August 2019 "The
best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it."
For the week of 4 August 2019 "Men do not like to admit to even momentary imperfection. My husband forgot
the code to turn off the alarm. When the police came, he wouldn't admit he'd forgotten the code. He turned himself
in."
For the week of 28 July 2019 "People often say that motivation
doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing. That's why we recommend it daily."
For the week of 21 July 2019 "My iPhone has 2 million times the storage of the 1969 Apollo 11 computer. They went to the moon. I throw angry
birds at pig houses."
For the week of 14 July 2019 "If you let your head
get too big, it'll break your neck."
For the week of 7 July 2019 "A
perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken."
For the week of the Fourth of July "America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair." - Arnold Joseph Toynbee
For the week of 23 June 2019 "Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for." - Will Rogers
For the week of 16 June 2019 "Remember: What dad really wants is a nap. Really."
For the week of 9 June 2019 "We've begun to long for
the pitter-patter of little feet, so we bought a dog. It's cheaper, and you get more feet."
For the week of 2 June 2019 - 75th Anniversary of D-Day, 6 June 1944 "Lieutenant
Welsh remembered walking around among the sleeping men, and thinking to himself that 'they had looked at and smelled death
all around them all day but never even dreamed of applying the term to themselves. They hadn't come here to fear. They
hadn't come to die. They had come to win.' "
For the week of 26 May 2019 "All
men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner."
For the week of 19 May 2019 "An apple a day, if well aimed, keeps the doctor away." - P. G. Wodehouse
For the week of 12 May 2019 "I want my children to have
all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them."
For the week of 5 May 2019 "You only get a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity so many times."
For the week of 28 April 2019 "In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." - Albert Einstein
For the week of 21 April 2019 "Never slap a man who is chewing tobacco." - Will Rogers
For the week of 14 April 2019 "Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."
For the week of 7 April 2019 "If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either."
For the week of 31 March 2019 "The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public."
For the week of 24 March 2019 "If a woman has to choose between
catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering
if there is a man on base."
For the week of 17 March 2019 "Why should
you never iron a 4-leaf clover? You don't want to press your luck."
For the week of 10 March 2019 "I don't kill flies but I like to mess with their minds. I hold them above globes. They freak out and yell,
‘Whoa, I'm way too high!' "
For the week of 3 March 2019 "I'm
a psychic amnesiac. I know in advance what I'll forget."
For the week of 24 February 2019 "Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants."
For the week of 17 February 2019 "I'm paranoid. On my
stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror."
For the week of 10 February 2019 "You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice." - Sam Levenson
For the week of 3 February 2019 "We all get heavier as we get older because there's a lot more information in our heads." - Vlade Divac
For the week of 27 January 2019 "Expecting the world to treat
you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian."
For the week of 20 January 2019 "Take the first step in faith.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
For the week of 13 January 2019 "I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position."
For the week of 6 January 2019 "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend
to be."
For the week of 30 December 2018 "New Year's Day
now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual."
For the week of 23 December 2018 "I will honor Christmas
in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."
For the week of 16 December 2018 "I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a
book."
For the week of 9 December 2018 "I tried to throw a yo-yo
away. It was impossible."
For the week of 2 December 2018 "The most
remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has
never been found."
For the week of 25 November 2018 "Aren't
we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas. You know, the birth of Santa?"
For the week of 18 November 2018 "Store security stopped my wife at the door for trying to steal a butterball turkey. I had to show ID proving I'm not a butterball turkey." - Just Bill
For the week of 11 November 2018 Veterans Day,100th Anniversary of the end of World War I "All of these things about America - the independent spirit; freedom and liberty to think, express, and act;
the promise of the potential for prosperity - have all been delivered to American citizens by our Founders and Framers, and
secured by American Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen." (And Marines.)
For the week of 4 November 2018 "We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs."
For the week of 28 October 2018 "Last Halloween was bad for me. I got beat up. I went to a party dressed as
a piñata."
For the week of 21 October 2018 "I live in my own
little world. But its OK, they know me here."
For the week of 14 October 2018 "I've
never allowed my schooling to get in the way of my education."
For the week of 7 October 2018 "Politics
is developing more comedians than radio ever did."
For the week of 30 September 2018 "Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made." - George Burns
For the week of 23 September 2018 "I have no desire to listen to The Temptations. Which is kind of weird." - Mitch Hedberg
For the week of 16 September 2018 "My favorite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September'
because it actually tells you something."
For the week of 11 September 2018 "Those whose lives were lost on September 11 will remain in our thoughts and
prayers forever." For the week of 2 September 2018 "You know what burns
me? Matches."
For the week of 26 August 2018 "Be careful about
reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
For the week of 19 August 2018 "Why
is it so hard for a leopard to hide? Because he's always spotted." For the week of 12 August 2018 "I have
been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough."
For the week of 5 August 2018 "How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand." - Emo Philips
For the week of 29 July 2018 "I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones." - John Peel For the week of 22 July 2018 "Never miss a good chance to shut up." - Will Rogers For the week of 15 July 2018
"A nickel ain't worth a dime
anymore." - Yogi Berra For the week of 8 July 2018 "Children really brighten up a household. They never turn the lights off." - Ralph Bus For the week of 31 June 2018
"Liberty means responsibility. That
is why most men dread it." - George Bernard Shaw For the week of 24 June 2018 "Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law." - Hubert Humphrey For
the week of 17 June 2018 "Socialism
in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it" - Dr. Thomas Sowell For the week of 10 June 2018 "When
angry, count to four; when very angry, swear." - Mark Twain For the week of 3 June 2018 "Skim milk is just water lying about being milk." - Ron Swanson For the week of 27 May 2018 and Memorial Day "Each of the patriots whom we remember on this day was
first a beloved son or daughter, a brother or sister, or a spouse, friend, and neighbor." - George H. W. Bush For the week of 20 May 2018 "The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States - and yet lands only in Europe." - Tom Wolfe For the week of 13 May 2018 - Happy Mother's Day! "Age is something that doesn't matter, unless
you are cheese." - Luis Bunuel For the week of 6 May 2018 "I've often thought that the process of aging could be slowed down if it had to go through Congress."
- George W. Bush For
the week of 29 April 2018 "You have
seen me at my worst and stuck with me - and you've seen me at my best and chuckled in disbelief." - General Eric Shinseki, addressing his wife at his 2003 retirement
from the US Army For the week of 22 April 2018 "If
you're too open-minded, your brains will fall out." - Lawrence Ferlinghetti For the week of 15 April 2018 "Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours." - Yogi Berra For the week of 8 April 2018 For the week of April Fools 2018 "Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid
comes easy." - Albert Einstein For the week of 25 March 2018
"If you cannot answer a man's
argument, all is not lost. You can still call him vile names." - Elbert Hubbard For the week of 18 March 2018 "Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile."
- Billy Sunday For the week of 11 March 2018 “My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.” - Ellen DeGeneres For
the week of 4 March 2018 “Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked
car.” - Evan Davis For the week of 25 February 2018 "A verbal contract isn't
worth the paper it is written on." - Samuel
Goldwyn For the week of 18 February 2018 "I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
- Winston Churchill "Get the facts first. You can distort them later."
- Mark Twain  For the week of 4 February 2018 "Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in
such a way that they ask for directions." -
Winston Churchill For the week of 28 January 2018 “Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's
all.” - William Goldman, "The Princess Bride"For the week of 21 January
2018 "If all else fails, immortality
can always be assured by spectacular error." -
John Kenneth Galbraith For the week of 14 January 2018 "Love
your enemies. It makes them so damn mad." - P.D. East For
the week of 7 January 2018 "Maybe
fear is God's way of saying, 'Pay attention, this could be fun.' " - Craig Ferguson For the week of 1 January 2018 "I always cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food." - W.C. Fields For the week of 25 December
2017 - Christmas week “As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December’s bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same.” – Donald E. Westlake For the week of 17 December
2017 "Christmas sweaters are only acceptable as a cry for help." - Andy Borowitz BONUS FOR THIS WEEK
- Victory in Iraq: We gave the Iraqis
a chance - "a republic, if you can keep it" as Franklin once said - and they ran with it. Good for them. For
the week of 10 December 2017 “Although I understand that all days are equal with 24 hours each,
most of us agree that Friday is the longest day of the week and Sunday the shortest.” - D.S. Mixell For
the week of 3 December 2017 "In the old days, it was not called
the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went to church; the Jews called it 'Hanukkah'
and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say 'Merry
Christmas!' or 'Happy Hanukkah!' or (to the atheists) 'Look out for the wall!' " - Dave Barry For the week of 26 November 2017 "The holiday season: a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in
his own way, by going to the mall of his choice." - Dave Barry
For the week of 19 November 2017 "Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take
twelve minutes. This is not coincidence."
For the week of 12 November 2017 "When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me $85. That's why in the Navy, the captain goes down with the ship." - Dick Gregory
For the week of 5 November 2017 “I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than
I am.” - Bernard M. Baruch
For the week of 29 October 2017 "On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me." - Rodney Dangerfield
For the week of 22 October 2017 "My advice to defensive players is to take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor." - Bowden Wyatt
For the week of 15 October 2017 "I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation." - Bob Devaney
For the week of 8 October 2017
“I hate housework. You make the beds, you wash the dishes, and six months later you have to start all over again.” —Joan Rivers For the week 1 October 2017 Ohio State's Urban Meyers on one of his players: "He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades and he doesn't know the meaning of a lot of words."
For the week of 24 September 2017 "It's important to have a good vocabulary. If I had known the difference between the words antidote and anecdote, one of my good friends would still be living." - John McDowell
For the week of 17 September 2017 "If you stop eating doughnuts, you will live three years longer. But it's just three more years that you'll want a doughnut." - Lewis Black
For the week of 10 Sept 2017 “One of the worst days in America’s history saw
some of the bravest acts in Americans’ history. We’ll always honor the heroes of 9/11. And here at this hallowed
place, we pledge that we will never forget their sacrifice.”
For the week of 3 August 2017
“It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits in the newspaper.” - Jerry Seinfeld
For the week of 27 August 2017 “You can measure distance by time. ‘How far away is it?’ ‘Oh, about 20 minutes.’ But it doesn’t work the other way. ‘When do you get off work?’ ‘Around three miles.' ” - Jerry Seinfeld For the week of 20 August 2017
“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” - Margaret Mead For the week of 13 August 2017
“It’s important to have a good vocabulary. If I had known the difference between the words antidote and anecdote, one of my good friends would still be living.” —Comedian John McDowell
For the week of 6 August 2017 “My parents used to stuff me with candy when I was a kid. M&M’s, Jujubes, SweeTarts. I don’t think they wanted a child; I think they wanted a piñata.” - Wendy Liebman
For the week of 30 July 2017 "It's embarrassing that people don't know one country from another on a map. Don't they teach geometry anymore?" - Bob Moher
For the week of 23 July 2017 "The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for steak to cook." - Julia Child
For the week of 16 July 2017 “As soon as the hospital made me put on one of those little gowns, I knew the end was in sight.” - Adam Joshua Smargon For the week of 9 July 2017
For the week of 2 July 2017 Happy 4th!
For the week of 25 June 2017 “Having one child makes you a parent; having two makes you a referee.”
- David Frost
For the week of 18 June 2017 "I gave my father $100 and said, “Buy yourself something that will make your life easier.” So he went out and bought a present for my mother." - Rita Rudner
For the week of 11 June 2017 “My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping.” - Rita Rudner For the week of 4 June 2017 "Any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think he can respond with a great deal of pride and satisfaction ... I served in the U. S. Navy." - John F. Kennedy
For the week of 28 May 2017 "Some people spend an entire life time wondering if they made a difference in the world. The U.S. Armed Forces don't have that problem." -Ronald Reagan
For the week of 21 May 2017 “I couldn’t repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.” – Steven Wright
For the week of 14 May 2017 "If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?" - Milton Berle
For the week of 7 May 2017 “For every
set of horseshoes human beings use for luck, somewhere in this world there’s a barefoot horse.”
For the week of 30 April 2017 "When I
was a child my father attacked me with cameras; I still have flashbacks."
For the week of 23 April 2017 "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen all at once." - Albert Einstein
For the week of 16 April 2017 "The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes." - Albert Einstein
For the week of 9 April 2017 "I don’t
want to brag, but I do speak pig Latin; I mean, I’m not fluent, but I’m sure if I ever went there, I could get
by.”
For the week of 2 April 2017 “I'm a naval officer--- a real naval officer. Not a graduate of the Naval Academy.” - Steve Bannon
For the week of 26 March 2017 “My therapist
told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far I’ve finished two bags of M&Ms
and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.”
For the week of 19 March 2017 “We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.” For the week of 12 March 2017 “The key to eating healthy is not eating any food that has a TV commercial.”
For the week of 5 March 2017 “My kitchen
floor is sticky, and I had to do something about it. So finally I went out and bought some slippers.”
For the week of 26 February 2017 "How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery' ?" - Jay Leno
For the week of 19 February 2017 "Here's some advice. At a job interview, tell them you're willing to give 110 percent. Unless the job is a statistician." - Adam Gropman
For the week of 12 February 2017 "Why do we need change? Aren't things bad enough as they are?" - Lord Salisbury
For the week of 5 February 2017 The 5th was Paul and Diana's 39th Anniversary! They reminisce ...
PAUL - I think the day we met was the luckiest day of my life!
For the week of 29 January 2017 “I saw a documentary on how ships are kept together; It was riveting.” - Stewart Francis
For the week of 22 January 2017 “I always knew it would be a cold day in hell when I became president.” —William Howard Taft. When he was inaugurated in 1909, a blizzard hit Washington DC with 10 inches of snow
For the week of 15 January 2017 "A watched pot never boils, but it does get paranoid."
- Lesley Wake
For the week of 8 January 2017 "Cats are smarter than dogs. You can’t get eight cats to pull a sled through snow." —Jeff Valdez
For the week of 1 January 2017 “Never make predictions, especially about the future.” - Casey Stengel
For Christmas week, 25 December 2016 "Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind." - Mary Ellen Chase
For the week of 18 December 2016 "Maybe
Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store." - Dr. Seuss
For the week of 11 December 2016 "You know it’s time to do the laundry when you dry off with a sneaker." - Zach Galifianakis
For the week of 4 December 2016 "The future ain't what it used to be." - Yogi Berra
For the week of 27 November 2016 "One time, a guy handed me a picture and said, 'Here’s a picture of me when I was younger.' Every picture of you is when you were younger." - Mitch Hedberg
For the week of 20 November 2016 "Last Thanksgiving I shot my own turkey. It was fun. That shotgun going, Blam! Everybody at the supermarket just staring. Why track them when I know where they are?" —Kenny Rogerson
For the week of 13 November 2016 "I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born." - Ronald Reagan
For the week of 6 November 2016 “I’ve moved on to other things. Obviously I love rock ’n’ roll, and I love music, but it’s nice to be in a world like professional wrestling, where I’m treated like a normal person.” - Billy Corgan
For the week of 30 October 2016 “I spent four years in college. I didn’t learn a thing. It was really my own fault. I had a double major in psychology and reverse psychology.” - B. J. Novak For the week of 23 October 2016 "Of course I'm right. I'm the damn Captain of this operation. If I'm wrong, I will adjust the situation until I am right." -Andy Sherbo
For the week of 16 October 2016 “If people say they just love the smell of books, I always want to pull them aside and ask, To be clear, do you know how reading works?” - Bridger Winegar
For the week of 9 October 2016 “I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn’t work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.” – Emo Philips
For the week of 2 October 2016 "The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one." - Erma Bombeck
For the week of 25 September 2016 "Our faults and failings are not an excuse for failing to be heroic or achieve great things. We can have them and still do amazing things." - Andy Sherbo
For the week of 18 September 2016 (APOLOGIES FOR BEING LATE - we had some website issues) "I never graduated from Iowa. But I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's." – Alex Karras
For the week of 11 September 2016 "Our enemies have made the mistake that America’s enemies always make. They saw liberty and thought they saw weakness. And now, they see defeat." -George W. Bush
For the week of 4 September 2016 "I am a friend of the working man - and I would rather be his friend than be one." - Clarence Darrow
For the week of 29 August 2016
"Always remember Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David." - Shug Jordan
For the week of 22 August 2016
“My wedding was like a fairy tale. It wasn’t magical; it’s just that I’ve got an ugly sister.” - Ellie Taylor
For the week of 15 August 2016 “A cement mixer has collided with a prison van. Motorists are asked to look out for 16 hardened criminals.” - Ronnie Corbett
For the week of 8 August 2016 "You can run me, and you can starve me, and you can beat me, and you can kill
me, but don't bore me."
For the week of 1 August 2016 "I got a package in the post last week, and on it, it said, ‘Please don’t bend.’ So how was I supposed to pick it up?” - Lee Mack For the
week of 25 July 2016 "Talking to yourself
just leads to a lot of arguments." - Rebecca Sawyer
Smith For the week of 18 July 2016 “A bit of advice: never read a pop-up book about giraffes.” - Sean Lock For the
week of 11 July 2016 “I said, ‘It's serious doctor, I've broken my arm in 20 places.’ He said: ‘Well stop going to those places.’ ” - Tommy Cooper For the week of the 4th of July 2016 "You have to love a nation that celebrates its Independence every July 4,
not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family
picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten,
but it is patriotism." - Erma Bombeck For the week of 27 June 2016 "I once got sacked for laughing. Mind you, I was driving a hearse at
the time.” - Bernard Manning For
the week of 20 June 2016 “A dog will always
look up to you, a cat will always look down on you, but a pig will look you in the eye and see his equal.”- Winston Churchill |
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