It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas. YourEssay now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.
Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.
Browse Authors:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
(Click a letter to view the authors)
Letter "J" » Jack Handy Quotes
(Click a letter to view the authors)
«It's amazing to me that one of the world's most feared diseases would be carried by one of the world's smallest animals: the real tiny dog.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
amazing, animals, Animal World, carried, diseases, feared, smallest, tiny
«I think one way the cops could make money would be to hold a murder weapons sale. Many people could really use used ice picks.»
«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.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
gag, Gags, Open and, parachute, parachutes, parachuting, swimming
«Here's a good thing to do if you go to a party and you don't know anybody: First take out the garbage. Then go around and collect any extra garbage that people might have, like a crumpled napkin, and take that out too. Pretty soon people will want to meet the busy garbage guy.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
busy, collect, collects, crumpled, extra, garbage, garbage can, good guy, Good Thing, go around, guy, Meet The, napkin, napkins, party, Pretty Things, take out, Take That
«A funny thing to do is, if you're out hiking and your friend gets bitten by a poisonous snake, tell him you're going to go for help, then go about ten feet and pretend that *you* got bit by a snake. Then start an argument with him about who's going to go get help. A lot of guys will start crying. That's why it makes you feel good when you tell them it was just a joke.»
«The people in the village were real poor, so none of the children had any toys. But this one little boy had gotten an old enema bag and filled it with rocks, and he would go around and whap the other children across the face with it. Man, I think my heart almost broke. Later the boy came up and offered to give me the toy. This was too much! I reached out my hand, but then he ran away. I chased him down and took the enema bag. He cried a little, but that's the way of these people.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
across, bag, breaking away, break away, broke, but then, chased, cried, enema, enemas, filled, gotten, go across, go around, hands down, hand down, offered, Old Boys, old hand, one of the boys, poor boy, ran, reached, rocks, run across, run around, The Children, The Toy, The Village, this one, This Was, took, toy, toyed, toys, toy with, village, whap
«Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried in the ground. You pull and you pull, but you can't get the rock out of the ground. So you give it a good kick, but you lose your balance and go skidding down the hill toward the pool. Then out comes a big Hawaiian man who was screwing his wife beside the pool because they thought it was real pretty. He tells you to get out of there, but you start faking it, like you're talking Hawaiian, and then he gets mad and chases you...»
«If Alien was my friend, I'd like to be with him when he went to the dentist. When they started drilling, he'd probably go nuts and start eating everybody. That Alien!»
«I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate revolver. and since he is so busy, you'd probably have to run up to him real quick and give it to him.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
busy, chocolate, chocolates, President, quick, revolver, run up, the President
«If you go to a costume party at your boss's house, wouldn't you think a good costume would be to dress up like the boss's wife? Trust me, it's not.»
Research our database of over 800,000 top-quality pre-written papers plus 15,000 biographies for only $9.95/month.
Instant Account Activation. Register Now.
Instant Account Activation. Register Now.