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Casual Friday - With Jokes Quotes and Anecdotes “June Weddings”

Friday, June 16th, 2006

“Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that’s a real treat.” - Joanne Woodward


“For I’ve been born and I’ve been wed. All of man’s peril comes of bed.” - C.H. Webb, Dum Vivimus Vigilemus

“I love being married. It’s so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” - Rita Rudner “Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with.” - Mark Twain“No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying.” - unknown quote“I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.“Marriage is one of the few institutions that allow a man to do as his wife pleases.” - Milton Berle “I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.” - Rita Rudner“Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.” - Samuel Johnson “Do not marry a man to reform him. That is what reform schools are for.” - Mae West“A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.” - Don Fraser “Marriage is a fine institution - but I’m not ready for an institution.” - Mae West“Never go to bed mad — stay up and fight.” - Phyllis Diller

I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor’s eighth husband on her wedding night: I know what I’m supposed to do…I just have to figure out a way to make it interesting.” - many attributions

“A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.” – Kid Millions, 1934
 
“I was the best man at the wedding. If I’m the best man, why is she marrying him?” - Jerry Seinfeld


“Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.” – George Gilbert

 “When a woman steals your husband, there is no better revenge than to let her keep him.” – Anonymous


 
“The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.”  - Henry Youngman
 “One good husband is worth two good wives; for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.” - Benjamin Franklin

Casual Friday - Jokes, Quotes, and Anecdotes. Business

Friday, June 9th, 2006

“A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.” - Howard Scott

“I’m spending a year dead for tax reason.” – Douglas Adams

“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.” – Charles Lamb

“Only one thing is impossible for God: to find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.” – Mark Twain

“The definition of a consultant: Someone who borrows, your watch, tells you the time and then charges you for the privilege.” - Anonymous

“In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything.” – Harold Coffin

“The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.” – Charles Dickens

“He ended the job as he began it; fired with enthusiasm.” – Don O’Shaughnessy

“They usually have two tellers in my local bank, except when it’s very busy, when they have one.” – Rita Rudner

“If you think your boss is stupid remember; you wouldn’t have a job if he was smarter.” Albert Grant

Casual Friday - With Jokes Quotes and Anecdotes

Friday, May 19th, 2006

Shopping is better than sex. At least if you’re not satisfied, you can exchange it for something you really like.
– Adrienne Gusoff 

Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
So each is inevitably disappointed.
– Albert Einstein 

You know it’s love when you want to keep holding hands even after you’re sweaty.
– Anonymous

The four most important words in any marriage…”I’ll do the dishes.”
– Anonymous

No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying.
– Anonymous 

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing — and then marry him.
– Cher 
 

I’m always looking for meaningful one night stands.
– Dudley Moore  

Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.
– Erma Bombeck

It is impossible to love and be wise.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.– Francis BaconMarriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.
– Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.– Fulton J. SheenMen are from Earth. Women are from Earth. Deal with it.
– George Carlin
Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.I was married by a judge.
I should have asked for a jury.

Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.Men are from Earth. Women are from Earth. Deal with it.– Groucho Marx Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes.
There’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.

– Henry Kissinger

When we got married I told my wife “If you leave me, I’m going with you.
And she never did.
– James Fineous McBride 

It’s been so long since I made love,
I can’t even remember who gets tied up.
– Joan Rivers 
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question.
– Lily Tomlin
The only people who make love all the time are liars.
– Louis Jordan

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he’s a The only people who make love all the time are liars.baby.
– Natalie WoodLove is a grave mental disease.
– PlatoWhenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man that I want my Love is a grave mental disease.
children to spend their weekends with?
– Rita Rudner All marriages are happy. It’s trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.
– Shelley Winters

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
– Steve Martin

 

 

Casual Friday - With Jokes Quotes and Anecdotes

Friday, May 12th, 2006

Thank you Gloria for submitting these:

For People who think too seriously! 

1. Save The Whales. Collect The Whole Set.
2. A Day Without Sunshine Is Like, Night.
3. On The Other Hand, You Have Different Fingers.
4. I Just Got Lost In Thought. It Was Unfamiliar Territory.
5. 42.7 Percent Of All Statistics Are Made Up On The Spot.
6. 99 Percent Of Lawyers Give The Rest A Bad Name.
7. I Feel Like I’m Diagonally Parked In A Parallel Universe.
8. Honk If You Love Peace And Quiet.
9. Remember, Half The People You Know Are Below Average.
10. He Who Laughs Last Thinks Slowest.
11. Depression Is Merely Anger Without Enthusiasm.
12. The Early Bird May Get The Worm, But The Second Mouse Gets The Cheese.
13. I Drive Way Too Fast To Worry About Cholesterol.
14. Support Bacteria. They’re The Only Culture Some People Have.
15. Monday Is An Awful Way To Spend 1/7 Of Your Week.
16. A Clear Conscience Is Usually The Sign Of A Bad Memory.
17. Change Is Inevitable, Except From Vending Machines.
18. Get A New Car For Your Spouse. It’ll Be A Great Trade!
19. Plan To Be Spontaneous Tomorrow.
20. Always Try To Be Modest, And Be Proud Of It!
21 If You Think Nobody Cares, Try Missing A Couple Of Car Payments.
22. How Many Of You Believe In Psycho-kinesis? Raise My Hand.
23 . Ok, So What’s The Speed Of Dark?
24. How Do You Tell When You’re Out Of Invisible Ink?
25. If Everything Seems To Be Going Well, You Have Obviously Overlooked
Something.
26. When Everything Is Coming Your Way, You’re In The Wrong Lane.
27. Hard Work Pays Off In The Future. Laziness Pays Off Now.
28. Everyone Has A Photographic Memory. Some Just Do Not Have Film.
29. If Barbie Is So Popular, Why Do You Have To Buy Her Friends?
30. How Much Deeper Would The Ocean Be Without Sponges?
31. Eagles May Soar, But Weasels Do Not Get Sucked Into Jet Engines.
32. What Happens If You Get Scared Half To Death Twice?
33. I Used To Have An Open Mind But My Brains Kept Falling Out.
34. I Couldn’t Repair Your Brakes, So I Made Your Horn Louder.
35. Why Do Psychics Have To Ask You For Your Name?
36 Inside Every Older Person Is A Younger Person Wondering ‘what
Happened?’
37. Just Remember - If The World Did Not Suck, We Would All Fall Off.
38. Light Travels Faster Than Sound, Which Is Why Some People Appear
Bright Until You Hear Them Speak.

Casual Friday - Jokes, Quotes, and Anecdotes. Tax Day

Saturday, April 15th, 2006

“It’s income tax time again, Americans: time to gather up those receipts, get out those tax forms, sharpen up that pencil, and stab yourself in the aorta.“ – D. Barry “Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.” – Calvin Coolidge 

“The hardest thing in the world to understand is the Income Tax form” –Albert Einstein “I want to find out who this FICA guy is and how come he’s taking so much of my money.” – Professional Hockey Player 

“it would be nice if we could all pay our taxes with a smile, but normally cash is required.” – Anonymous “The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.” – Sam Ewing 

“if you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead – if you strike oil.” J. Paul Getty  “Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.” - Herbert Hoover “I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes…” – Mark Twain

Casual Friday - Jokes, Quotes, and Anecdotes. Baseball

Friday, April 7th, 2006

Abbott: Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who’s on first, What’s on second, I Don’t Know is on third. Costello: That’s what I want to find out. – Lou Costello

For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown into innings. – Earl Wilson

After I his a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases. – Mickey Mantle

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon of the golf course. – Hank Aaron

Candlestick was built on the waster. It should have been built under it. – Roger Maris

They (Expos Fans) discovered ‘boo” is pronounced the same in French as it is in English. –Harry Caray

All I want is for my case to be heard before an impractical decision-maker. – Pete Rose

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw. – Willie Mays

I’d rather hit than have sex. – Reggie Jackson

A baseball bat is a wondrous weapon. – Ty Cobb

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren’t any rules, how could you break them? – Leo Durocher

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided. – Casey Stengel

The best way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then pick it up. – Bob Uecker

England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up wit a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example. - Robert Benchley

 

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It’s staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in. – Casey Stengel

Don’t forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball. – Woodie Held

Casual Friday - Jokes, Quotes, and Anecdotes. April Fools Humor

Friday, March 31st, 2006

A fool and his money are soon parted - Especially in Las Vegas   Tulara Lee 

 April 1.  This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.  ~Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson, 1894April fool, n.  The March fool with another month added to his folly.  ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.  ~Chinese Proverb

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee,
And I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me.
~Robert Frost, “Cluster of Faith,” 1962

He who is born a fool is never cured.  ~Proverb

Let us be thankful for the fools.  But for them the rest of us could not succeed.  ~Mark Twain

If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings.  ~Welsh Proverb

I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it.  ~Jack Handey

We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.  ~Japanese Proverb

Even the gods love jokes.  ~Plato

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.  ~Abraham Lincoln

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.  ~Will Rogers

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.  ~Henry Louis Mencken

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.  ~Douglas Adams

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.  ~Max Eastman

Don’t give cherries to pigs or advice to fools.  ~Irish Proverb

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.  ~Clifton Paul Fadiman

It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.  ~Spanish Proverb

I have great faith in fools - self-confidence, my friends call it.  ~Edgar Allan Poe

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.  ~George Orwell

Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen.  Women reach theirs at thirty-five.  Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?  ~Rita Rudner

Suppose the world were only one of God’s jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?  ~George Bernard Shaw

Real friends are those who, when you feel you’ve made a fool of yourself, don’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.  ~Author Unknown

Motivational Humor’s Casual Friday With Jokes, Quotes & Annecdotes

Friday, February 3rd, 2006
  • Ethel Barrymore - You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself.
  • Will Rogers - We are all here for a spell. Get all the good laughs you can.       
  • Henry Elliot -If its sanity you are after there is no recipe like laughter.”
  • Sir Francis Bacon -“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”
  • Henry Ward Beecher -“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs — jolted by every pebble in the road.”
  • Aristotle -“Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.”

  • W. C. Fields - “Start off every day with a smile and get it over with.”
  • Gracie Allen - “Build a better mousetrap than your neighbour and Kraft Cheese will beat a path to your door.”
  • Bill Cosby - ”A word to the wise ain’t necessary - it’s the stupid ones that need the advice.”
  • George Carlin“Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.”
  • Marty Feldman - “The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.”
  • George Gobel - “If it weren’t for electricity we’d all be watching television by Candlelight.”