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Jack Handy Funny Quotes #2

Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines?

How do blind people know when they are done “wiping?”

If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest drown too?

If you ate pasta and antipasta, would you still be hungry?

Should crematoriums give discounts for burn victims?

If a mute swears, does his mother wash his hands with soap?

A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don’t have film.

Put on your seatbelt….. I wanna try something.

What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

Chocolate: the OTHER major food group.

Death is hereditary.

I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out.

Jack Handy QuotesMultitasking – screwing up several things at once.

Arachibutyrophobia : fear of peanut butter sticking to roof of mouth.

To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there’s no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.

As I bit into the nectarine, it had a crisp juiciness about it that was very pleasurable – until I realized it wasn’t a nectarine at all, but A HUMAN HEAD!!

Most people don’t realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer.

Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I’ll go over to the persons house and ring the doorbell. When the person comes to the door, I’m gone, but you know what I’ve left on the porch? A jack-o-lantern with a knife stuck in the side of it’s head with a note that says “You.” After that I usually feel a lot better, and no harm done.

If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you’ll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.

Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It’s a shark riding on an elephant’s back, just trampling and eating everything they see.

As we were driving, we saw a sign that said “Watch for Rocks.” Marta said it should read “Watch for Pretty Rocks.” I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke – just to get out of writing a simple letter! And I thought I was lazy!

I wish a robot would get elected president. That way, when he came to town, we could all take a shot at him and not feel too bad.

As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.

Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what is I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn’t seem quite so funny.

If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn’t open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming.

When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we’d all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn’t until later that I found out that Uncle Caveman was a bear.

The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw.

Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.

I wish outer space guys would conquer the Earth and make people their pets, because I’d like to have one of those little beds with my name on it. The next time I have meat and mashed potatoes, I think I’ll put a very large blob of potatoes on my plate with just a little piece of meat. And if someone asks me why I didn’t get more meat, I’ll just say, “Oh, you mean this?” and pull out a big piece of meat from inside the blob of potatoes, where I’ve hidden it. Good magic trick, huh?

Muhammad Ali Quotes

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

Ain’t no reason for me to kill nobody in the ring, unless they deserve it.

If you were surprised when Nixon resigned, just watch what happens when I whup Foreman’s behind!

If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don’t ask how. Hitch him up.

I’m retiring because there are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head.

I’m not the greatest; I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ’em out, I pick the round.

Allah is the Greatest. I’m just the greatest boxer.

Floats like a butterfly, sting like a bee, his hands can’t hit what his eyes can’t see.

I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick; I’m so mean I make medicine sick.

I’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and got into bed before the room was dark.

Superman don’t need no seatbelt.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

I’m the best. I just haven’t played yet. – on playing golf

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

Only the nose knows where the nose goes when the doors close.

I am America. I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

Cassius Clay is a slave name. I didn’t choose it and I don’t want it. I am Muhammad Ali, a free name – it means beloved of God – and I insist people use it when people speak to me and of me.

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin’ hell, but as long as they ain’t free, I ain’t free.

Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs?

Nobody has to tell me that this is a serious business. I’m not fighting one man. I’m fighting a lot of men, showing a lot of ’em, here is one man they couldn’t defeat, couldn’t conquer. My mission is to bring freedom to 30m black people.

A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I’ll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I’m gonna tell ya, that’s one helluva man, and God bless him.

Now you see me, now you don’t. George thinks he will, but I know he won’t!

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

Wisdom is knowing when you can’t be wise.

It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world.

Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams — they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do — they all contain truths.

Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it.

I’m so fast that last night I turned the light switch off in my bedroom and I was in bed before the room was dark.

I’m the king of the world, I am the greatest, I’m Muhammed Ali, I shook up the world, I am the greatest, I’m king of the world, I’m pretty, I’m pretty, I’m a baaaad man, you heard me I’m a baaad man, Archie Moore fell in four, Liston wanted me more, so since he’s so great, I’m a make him fall in eight, I’m a baaad man, I’m king of the world! I’m 22 years old and ain’t gotta mark on my face, I’m pretty, I easily survived six rounds with that ugly bear, because I am the greatest.

If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

My face is so pretty, you don’t see a scar, which proves I’m the king of the ring by far.

Joe’s gonna be smokin’ an’ I ain’t even jokin but I’ll be peckin’ and a pokin’ and I’ll pour water on that smokin’. Now this might astound and amaze ya but I will destroy Joe Frazier.

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I’m in a world of my own.

People don’t realize what they had till it’s gone. Like President Kennedy – nobody like him. Like The Beatles, there will never be anything like them. Like my man, Elvis Presley – I was the Elvis of boxing.’

It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.

Here I predict Sonny Liston’s dismemberment, I’ll hit him so hard, he’ll forget where October-November went.

My toughest fight was with my first wife, and she won every round.

It’s not bragging if you can back it up.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

At home I am a nice guy: but I don’t want the world to know. Humble people, I’ve found, don’t get very far.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

I am the greatest; I said that even before I knew I was.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

I’ll beat him so bad he’ll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

No one knows what to say in the loser’s locker room. – Muhammad Ali