I received the following from a Political Philosophy Professor I had at Assumption College. Not only was he a tremendous professor who was well-liked and really cared about his students (though, he may say other wise), he taught his students how to look at something and not just take the facts from the surface; how to analyze what the situation was and look at it from different points of view.
When you left Assumption, he continued to keep in touch through email. Of course, not individual emails, but the option to get onto his mailing list. His mailings include jokes, quotes, and his own rants and thoughts about a specific topic. These mini-lessons to [thousands] continue our education and call for anybody to challenge him. Someday I will have to repost his emails, but this paste is quotes that made me chuckle.
Thought I would share them with you.
When I die, I want to die like my grandfather–who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.”
–Author Unknown
Advice for the day: If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: “Take two aspirin” and “Keep away from children.”
–Author Unknown
“Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.”
–Drew Carey
The problem with the designated driver program, it’s not a desirable job, but if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house.”
–Jeff Foxworthy
“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.”
–Dave Barry
“Relationships are hard. It’s like a full time job, and we should treat it like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they should give you two weeks’ notice. There should be severance pay, the day before they leave you, they should have to find you a temp.”
–Bob Ettinger
“My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, ‘Mom, they weren’t trying to teach you how to swim.’”
–Paula Poundstone
“A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: “Duh.”
–Conan O’Brien
“Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?? I’m halfway through my fish burger and I realize, Oh my God…. I could be eating a slow learner.”
–Lynda Montgomery
“I think that’s how Chicago got started. Bunch of people in New York said, ‘Gee, I’m enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn’t cold enough. Let’s go west.’”
–Richard Jeni
“If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.”
–Johnny Carson
“Sometimes I think war is God’s way of teaching us geography.”
–Paul Rodriguez
“My parents didn’t want to move to Florida , but they turned sixty and that’s the law.”
–Jerry Seinfeld
“Remember in elementary school, you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic in that? What,……. do tall people burn slower?”
–Warren Hutcherson
“Bigamy is having one wife/husband too many. Monogamy is the same.”
–Oscar Wilde
“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.. But I repeat myself.”
–Mark Twain
“Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Afghanistan .”
–A. Whitney Brown
“You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, ‘My God, you’re right! I never would’ve thought of that!’”
–Dave Barry
Do you know why they call it “PMS”? Because “Mad Cow Disease” was taken.
–Unknown, presumed deceased
“Everybody’s got to believe in something. I believe I’ll have another beer.”
- W. C. Fields
And lastly: Why should I have to Press 1 for English?
