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1"I'm not arguing, I'm just explaining why I'm right."
2"A day without laughter is a day wasted." – Charlie Chaplin
3"Life is like a box of chocolates; it doesn't last long if you're fat."
4"Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad." – Miles Kington
5"If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you."
6"The road to success is always under construction." – Lily Tomlin
7"Never trust atoms; they make up everything."
8"Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes." – Jim Carrey
9"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."
10"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." – Oscar Wilde
11"Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?" – Robin Williams
12"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work." – Thomas Edison
13"I'm so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I'm saying." – Oscar Wilde
14"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive." – Elbert Hubbard
15"If you want your children to listen, try talking softly to someone else."
16"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." – George Burns
17"Laziness is the mother of invention. Necessity is the father."
18"I can resist everything except temptation." – Oscar Wilde
19"Life's too short to fold fitted sheets."
20"Always borrow money from a pessimist. They won’t expect it back."
21"People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day." – A.A. Milne
22"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter." – Mark Twain
23"A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory." – Steven Wright
24"Common sense is like deodorant; those who need it most never use it."
25"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." – Thomas Edison
26"You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?" – Steven Wright
27"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito." – Dalai Lama
28"An intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger." – Billy Connolly
29"You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." – Martin Luther King Jr.
30"Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak."
31"I cook with wine; sometimes I even add it to the food." – W.C. Fields
32"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove you don’t need it." – Bob Hope
33"I didn’t fail the test; I just found 100 ways to do it wrong." – Benjamin Franklin
34"Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy ice cream, which is pretty much the same thing."
35"I’m not lazy, I’m on energy-saving mode."
36"Why do we park in driveways and drive on parkways?" – Steven Wright
37"If you’re going through hell, keep going." – Winston Churchill
38"The best way to predict your future is to create it." – Peter Drucker
39"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take." – Wayne Gretzky
40"My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them." – Mitch Hedberg
41"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." – Winston Churchill
42"I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early." – Charles Lamb
43"If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the precipitate."
44"My goal this weekend is to move, just enough so people don’t think I’m dead."
45"Change is not a four-letter word, but often your reaction to it is." – Jeffrey Gitomer
46"I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally." – W.C. Fields
47"The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time."
48"If life gives you lemons, make lemonade. If life gives you melons, you might be dyslexic."
49"There are three kinds of people in this world: those who can count and those who can’t."
50"Some people graduate with honors, I just got out of there." – John Wayne
51"Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth."
52"Time is money, especially when you’re paid by the hour."
53"You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake." – Bob Hope
54"Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together."
55"A balanced diet means a cupcake in each hand."
56"I don’t suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it."
57"Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass; it’s about learning to dance in the rain." – Vivian Greene
58"I told my computer I needed a break, and now it won’t stop sending me Kit-Kats."
59"Why is it called 'after dark' when it’s really after light?"
60"Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it."
61"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today." – Will Rogers
62"I’d agree with you, but then we’d both be wrong."
63"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." – Vidal Sassoon
64"It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong." – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
65"You can't have everything. That's why there's Amazon."
66"Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time." – Steven Wright
67"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." – Derek Bok
68"Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?" – François de La Rochefoucauld
69"You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do." – Henry Ford
70"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions." – Dalai Lama
71"Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife." – Groucho Marx
72"A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking."
73"I am an early bird and a night owl… so I am wise and I have worms."
74"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."
75"Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there." – Will Rogers
76"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else." – Margaret Mead
77"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." – Winston Churchill
78"Don’t be irreplaceable; if you can’t be replaced, you can’t be promoted."
79"To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone." – Reba McEntire
80"If you’re not first, you’re last." – Ricky Bobby
81"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." – Winston Churchill
82"I never said most of the things I said." – Yogi Berra
83"To do is to be." – Socrates. "To be is to do." – Sartre. "Do be do be do." – Sinatra
84"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with nonsense."
85"There are no traffic jams along the extra mile." – Roger Staubach
86"Why be moody when you can shake your booty?"
87"Some people bring happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." – Oscar Wilde
88"Life is too important to be taken seriously." – Oscar Wilde
89"The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one." – Oscar Wilde
90"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." – Mae West
91"Laugh at your problems; everybody else does."
92"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." – Albert Einstein
93"If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of payments." – Earl Wilson
94"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe." – Albert Einstein
95"Always borrow books from pessimists. They won’t expect you to return them."
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97What has to be broken before you can use it? gge
98I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. eldanc
99What month of the year has 28 days? lla
100What is full of holes but still holds water? egnop
101What question can you never answer yes to? gnipeels
102What is always in front of you but can’t be seen? erutuf
103There’s a one-story house in which everything is yellow. What color are the stairs? enon
104What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it? esimorp
105What goes up but never comes down? ega
106What gets wetter the more it dries? lewot
107What has hands but can’t clap? kcolc
108What can you keep after giving to someone? esimorp
109What has many keys but can’t open a single lock? onip
110What can travel around the world while staying in the same corner? pmatS
111What has a head, a tail, but does not have a body? nioc
112What has to be given before you can keep it? esimorp
113What comes down but never goes up? niar
114I’m not alive, but I can grow. erif
115What has an eye but can’t see? eldeen
116What has four legs but can’t walk? elbat
117What gets bigger the more you take away? eloh
118What has roots as nobody sees, and is taller than trees? niatnuom
119What can fill a room but takes up no space? thgil
120The more of this you take, the more you leave behind. pets
121What can you hold in your left hand but not in your right? thgir dnah
122What has one eye but can’t see? mrots
123I have no life, but I can die. yrettab
124What has to be kept but can’t be kept forever? yterces
125What can run but never walks, has a bed but never sleeps? revir
126What can you hear but not see or touch? ecivo
127What can fly without wings? emiT
128What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs? kcolc
129What has no beginning, end, or middle? elcric
130What has an end but no beginning? daor
131What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it? ecnelis
132What has a neck but no head? elttob
133What is always running but never moves? retaw
134What can you eat but never cook? hserf
135What comes in the morning without being called? yad
136What has a bed but doesn’t sleep? revir
137What has cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees? pam
138What gets sharper the more you use it? lliks
139What has a ring but no finger? enohp
140What has stripes and crosses rivers but never moves? egdirb
141What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years? m
142What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it? topeT
143What has teeth but cannot bite? bmoC
144What runs but doesn’t walk? retaw
145What has a bottom at the top? sgel
146What kind of coat is best put on wet? tniap
147What has two hands and a face but no arms? kcolc
148What can you catch but not throw? dloc
149What has one foot but no legs? relur
150What has an end but no beginning? daor
151What can you find in the middle of nowhere? eh
152What has many teeth but no bite? bmoC
153What is so light a feather can hold it but strong that it can break your bones? riA
154What runs all day but never gets tired? retaw
155What has no weight but can sink a ship? eloh
156What has three letters, starts with gas? rac
157What has many faces but no head? edic
158What is a word made shorter by adding a letter? trohs
159What is easy to lift but hard to throw? rehtaef
160What’s at the end of everything? gnihtyreve
161What gets shorter as it grows older? eldnac
162What can you hold but not touch? htaerb
163What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive? evolg
164What has eyes but cannot see? atotop
165What comes but never arrives? worromot
166What belongs to you but is used more by others? eman
167What is yours but can be taken without you knowing? enohp
168What has four fingers and a thumb, but isn’t alive? evolg
169What can you find in December but not in any other month? D
170What has wheels but isn’t a car? traC
171What has a bark but no bite? eert
172What has six faces and twenty-one eyes? ecid
173What has no doors, no windows, but can be cracked? tun
174What has no legs but can run fast? retaw
175What is always there but cannot be touched? wodniw
176What has no words but tells stories? ohotop
177What is white and can be seen on a mountain top? wons
178What is dark but full of light? thgin
179What has keys but can’t unlock doors? onip
180What is cold but burns when it touches you? eci
181What has wings but cannot fly? nekcihc
182What lives in a shell but is not a gun? lians
183What is full of air but weighs nothing? nool
184What is at the beginning of everything? E