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Steven Wright Quotes
« on: December 17, 2013, 12:48:50 PM »
If you're not familiar with the work of Steven Wright, he's the famous scientist who once said: "I woke up one morning, and all of my stuff had been stolen and replaced by exact duplicates." ... He sees things differently than most of us.

Here are some of his gems:

1 - I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
2 - Borrow money from pessimists -- they don't expect it back.
3 - Half the people you know are below average.
4 - 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
6 - A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
7 - A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
8 - If you want the rainbow, you have got to put up with the rain.
9 - All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand.
10 - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
11 - I almost had a psychic girlfriend, ...... But she left me before we met.
12 - OK, so what's the speed of dark?
13 - How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?
14 - If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
15 - Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
16 - When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
17 - Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
18 - Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off now.
19 - I intend to live forever... So far, so good.
21 - Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
22 - What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
23 - My mechanic told me, "I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder."
24 - Why do psychics have to ask you for your name.
25 - If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
26 - A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
27 - Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
28 - The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.
29 - To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
30 - The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
31 - The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.
32 - The colder the x-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it.
33 - Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film.
34 - If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
35 - If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work?
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Re: Steven Wright Quotes
« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2013, 01:12:13 PM »
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Re: Steven Wright Quotes
« Reply #2 on: December 26, 2013, 01:37:28 PM »
Good find Pete  :thumbsup
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Re: Steven Wright Quotes
« Reply #3 on: December 26, 2013, 02:12:16 PM »
Some classics there Pete.

Here's one from me that I can't remember from someone else but my memory IS starting to do strange things, anyway:
     36. Never join a club whose entry requirements are so low that you qualify.

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Re: Steven Wright Quotes
« Reply #4 on: December 26, 2013, 05:51:28 PM »
Groucho Marx once said that he would never belong to a club that would let him be a member. It might be an old Vaudeville line.

Some classics there Pete.

Here's one from me that I can't remember from someone else but my memory IS starting to do strange things, anyway:
     36. Never join a club whose entry requirements are so low that you qualify.

(I broke this rule by joining OZstoc).  :H   :hatwave
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Re: Steven Wright Quotes
« Reply #5 on: December 27, 2013, 09:19:37 AM »
Wikiquotes says Groucho Marx telegrammed it to The Friars Club. 
"Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept people like me as a member."

The original version is attributed to John Galsworthy in The Forsyte Saga "He naturally despised the Club that did take him."
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