Authors - Jack Handey
Brief Biography
Jack Handey (born 25 February 1949) is an American humorist. He is best known for his Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey, a large body of surrealistic one-liner jokes, as well as his "Fuzzy Memories" and "My Big Thick Novel" shorts. Although many people assume otherwise, Handey is a real person, not a pen name or character. - Wikipedia
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Quote 1031by Anonymous on 09/01/2011
Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what IS that thing?!
Quote 1158by Anonymous on 11/01/2011
To me, it's always a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around. That way, if anybody says, 'Hey, can you give me a hand?,' you can say, 'Sorry, got these sacks.'
Quote 1182by Anonymous on 11/01/2011
Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way, he develops a good, lucky feeling.
Quote 1439by Anonymous on 13/01/2011
If you go flying back through time, and you see somebody else flying forward into the future, it's probably best to avoid eye contact.
Quote 1610by Anonymous on 14/01/2011
Whenever someone asks me to define love, I usually think for a minute, then I spin around and pin the guy's arm behind his back. NOW who's asking the questions?
Quote 1745by Anonymous on 16/01/2011
A man doesn't automatically get my respect. He has to get down in the dirt and beg for it.
Quote 1840by Anonymous on 16/01/2011
I hope some animal never bores a hole in my head and lays its eggs in my brain, because later you might think you're having a good idea but it's just eggs hatching.
Quote 1988by Anonymous on 20/01/2011
Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room, talking to you, which is why I don't like to read good books.
Quote 2200by Anonymous on 24/01/2011
How come the dove gets to be the peace symbol? How about the pillow? It has more feathers than the dove, and it doesn't have that dangerous beak.
Quote 2337by Anonymous on 28/01/2011
The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.
Quote 2446by Anonymous on 29/01/2011
If your kid makes one of those little homemade guitars out of a cigar box and rubber bands, don't let him just play it once or twice and then throw it away. Make him practice on it, every day, for about three hours a day. Later, he'll thank you.
Quote 2487by Anonymous on 31/01/2011
I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex.
Quote 2626by Anonymous on 02/02/2011
Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset? And he's carrying a beautiful rose in his beak, and also he's carrying a very beautiful painting with his feet. And also, you're drunk.
Quote 2733by Anonymous on 03/02/2011
I think a good gift for the president would be a chocolate revolver. And since he's so busy, you'd probably have to run up to him and hand it to him.
Quote 2885by Anonymous on 03/02/2011
If you ever crawl inside an old hollow log and go to sleep, and while you're in there some guys come and seal up both ends and then put it on a truck and take it to another city, boy, I don't know what to tell you.
Quote 2963by Anonymous on 03/02/2011
Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.
Quote 3088by Anonymous on 03/02/2011
I bet the main reason the police keep people away from a plane crash is they don't want anybody walking in and lying down in the crash stuff, then when somebody comes up act like they just woke up and go, 'What was THAT?!'
Quote 3216by Anonymous on 05/02/2011
If you're in a boxing match, try not to let the other guy's glove touch your lips, because you don't know where that glove has been.
Quote 3218by Anonymous on 05/02/2011
If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another weakness.
Quote 3242by Anonymous on 05/02/2011
Instead of burning a guy at the stake, what about burning him at the STILTS? It probably lasts longer, plus it moves around.
Quote 3258by Anonymous on 05/02/2011
Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus's-flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition.
Quote 3812by Anonymous on 10/02/2011
I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away.
Quote 3847by Anonymous on 12/02/2011
Playing dead not only comes in handy when face to face with a bear, but also at important business meetings.
Quote 3874by Anonymous on 12/02/2011
Even though he was an enemy of mine, I had to admit that what he had accomplished was a brilliant piece of strategy. First, he punched me, then he kicked me, then he punched me again.
Quote 3953by Anonymous on 12/02/2011
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.
Quote 3961by Anonymous on 12/02/2011
Instead of a trap door, what about a trap window? The guy looks out it, and if he leans too far, he falls out. Wait. I guess that's like a regular window.
Quote 4405by Anonymous on 21/02/2011
If I ever get real rich, I hope I'm not real mean to poor people, like I am now.
Quote 4622by Anonymous on 25/02/2011
When this girl at the museum asked me who I liked better, Monet or Manet, I said, 'I like mayonnaise.' She just stared at me, so I said it again, louder. Then she left. I guess she went to try to find some mayonnaise for me.
Quote 4645by Anonymous on 25/02/2011
To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kinda scary. I've wondered where this started, and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus and a clown killed my dad.
Quote 4798by Anonymous on 28/02/2011
I think that a hat which has a little cannon that fires and then goes back inside the hat is at least a decade away.
Quote 4881by Anonymous on 03/03/2011
It makes me mad when people say I turned and ran like a scared rabbit. Maybe it was like an angry rabbit, who was going to fight in another fight, away from the first fight.
Quote 5867by Anonymous on 02/09/2011
It takes a big man to cry. It takes an even bigger man to laugh at that man and an ever bigger man to ask why he is laughing.
