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Complete one-liners listing
Do you know a good one-liner that's not listed here? Be sure to send it to me! Let me know if you want to be credited or not.

  • "A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic." - Joseph Stalin
  • "I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?" --Tom Clancy.
  • "I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers." --Peter Kaye.
  • "If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." - George W. Bush
  • 43% of all statistics are worthless.
  • 7/5th of all people do not understand fractions.
  • A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.
  • A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
  • A bad plan is better than no plan.
  • A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
  • A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.
  • A day for firm decisions! Or is it?
  • A day without sun shine is like, you know, night.
  • A drunk mans' words are a sober mans' thoughts.
  • A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
  • A gentleman is a patient wolf.
  • A good pun is its own reword.
  • A little bit of powder, a little bit of paint, makes a girl's complexion seem what it ain't.
  • A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
  • A long-forgotten loved one will appear soon. Buy the negatives at any price.
  • A man on a date wonders if he'll get lucky. The woman already knows.
  • A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package.
  • A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
  • A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry.
  • A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
  • A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
  • A religious war is like children fighting over who has the strongest imaginary friend.
  • A smart man covers his ass, a wise man leaves his pants on.
  • A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students
  • A weekend wasted isn't a wasted weekend.
  • A witty saying proves nothing.
  • According to my calculations the problem doesn't exist.
  • Admit nothing, deny everything and make counter-accusations.
  • Adult: One old enough to know better.
  • After all is said and done, more is said than done.
  • Alcohol is not the answer, it just makes you forget the question.
  • All generalisations are dangerous, even this one.
  • All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
  • All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand.
  • All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.
  • All work and no play, will make you a manager.
  • Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.
  • Am I ranting? I hope so. My ranting gets raves.
  • An apple every eight hours will keep three doctors away.
  • An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
  • Any clod can have the facts, but having an opinion is an art.
  • Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.
  • Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry.
  • Anybody with money to burn will easily find someone to tend the fire.
  • Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral or fattening.
  • Anything worth taking seriously is worth making fun of.
  • Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.
  • Are you wearing lipstick? Well, mind if I taste it?
  • Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
  • As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools.
  • Atheists can do whatever the hell they want.
  • Attitude determines your altitude.
  • Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
  • Bad spellers of the world untie!
  • Bald guys never have a bad hair day.
  • Batteries not included.
  • Be good - and if you can't be good, be careful.
  • Be good; if you can't be good, have fun.
  • Be naughty - save santa the trip.
  • Be nice to your kids. They'll choose your nursing home.
  • Be safety conscious. 80% of people are caused by accidents.
  • Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
  • Beauty lasts for a moment, but ugly goes on and on and on.
  • Beer - the reason I wake up every afternoon.
  • Best viewed on my computer.
  • Better late than really late.
  • Biology grows on you.
  • Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.
  • Carpenter's rule: cut to fit; beat into place.
  • Chaos, panic, pandemonium - my work here is done.
  • Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are.
  • Chicago law prohibits eating in a place that is on fire.
  • Children in the dark make accidents, but accidents in the dark make children.
  • Clones are people two.
  • Coarse and violent nudity. Occasional language.
  • Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum. I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
  • Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
  • Could crop circles be the work of a cereal killer?
  • Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
  • Crime doesn't pay... does that mean my job is a crime?
  • Cult: It just means not enough people to make a minority.
  • Dawn is nature's way of telling you to go to bed.
  • Depression is merely anger without the enthusiasm.
  • Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
  • Don't argue with a fool. The spectators can't tell the difference.
  • Don't be humble, you're not that great.
  • Don't be sexist. Broads hate that.
  • Don't believe everything you think.
  • Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened.
  • Don't let yesterday take up to much of today.
  • Don't steal a police car unless you're prepared to floor it all the way to Mexico.
  • Don't tell any big lies today. Small ones can be just as effective.
  • Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.
  • Don't trust reality. After all, it's only a collective hunch.
  • Drive defensively - buy a tank.
  • Drugs cause amnesia and other things I can't remember.
  • Dyslexics have more fnu.
  • Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
  • Early to rise, and early to bed, makes a man healthy but socially dead.
  • Earn cash in your spare time. Blackmail your friends.
  • Earth first! (We'll strip-mine the other planets later).
  • Earth is a great, big funhouse without the fun.
  • Eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow they may make it illegal.
  • Electrical Engineers do it with less resistance.
  • Elevators smell different to midgets.
  • Entropy isn't what it used to be.
  • Even at a Mensa convention someone is the dumbest person in the room.
  • Every absurdity has a champion who will defend it.
  • Every man has his price. Mine is $3.95.
  • Every snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.
  • Every solution breeds new problems.
  • Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
  • Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
  • Everyone has a scheme for getting rich that will not work.
  • Everyone is beautiful if you squint a bit.
  • Everything is always okay in the end, if it's not okay, then it's not the end.
  • Examine what is said, not who speaks.
  • Except for 75% of the women, everyone in the whole world wants to have sex.
  • Excuse me, is there an airport nearby large enough for a private jet to land?
  • Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
  • Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes.
  • F u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng.
  • Failure is not an option - it's a lifestyle.
  • Failure is not falling down, it is not getting up again.
  • Failure teaches success.
  • Fill what's empty, empty what's full, scratch where it itches.
  • Fine day to work off excess energy. Steal something heavy.
  • First rule of acting: whatever happens, look as if it were intended.
  • For a good time, call (415) 642-9483.
  • For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism.
  • For every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong.
  • For good, return good. For evil, return justice.
  • Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
  • Freedom of speech is wonderful - right up there with the freedom not to listen.
  • Friendly fire - isn't.
  • Friends come and go, enemies accumulate.
  • Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.
  • Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
  • Frog blast the vent core!
  • Gee, Toto, I don't think we're in kansas anymore.
  • Getting screwed while everybody else is getting laid.
  • Give a jackass an education and you get a smartass.
  • Goals are deceptive. The unaimed arrow never misses.
  • God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
  • God made us brothers, but prozac made us friends.
  • God will forgive me. That's his job, after all.
  • Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
  • Happiness isn't having what you want, it's wanting what you have.
  • Hear and you forget; see and you remember; do and you understand.
  • Help wanted: Telepath. You know where to apply.
  • Hey! It compiles! Ship it!
  • Hey, you want to go out for pizza and some sex? What, you don't like pizza?
  • Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defence.
  • How come wrong numbers are never busy?
  • How long a minute is depends on what side of the bathroom door you're on.
  • I am not single, I'm romantically challenged.
  • I am willing to make the mistakes if someone else is willing to learn from them.
  • I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.
  • I can't spell and beer doesn't help.
  • I didn’t say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.
  • I don't mind coming to work, but that eight hour wait to go home is a bitch!
  • I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
  • I doubt, therefore I might be.
  • I drink to make other people interesting.
  • I have a strong will but a weak won't.
  • I like being single. I'm always there when I need me.
  • I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
  • I prefer old age to the alternative.
  • I still miss my ex. But my aim is getting better.
  • I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted paychecks.
  • I thought I was wrong once, but it turns out I was mistaken.
  • I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out.
  • I'd buy you a drink, but i'd be jealous of the straw.
  • I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
  • I'm a nobody, nobody is perfect, therefore I'm perfect.
  • I'm not normally a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me, Superman!
  • I'm not paranoid, they really are after me.
  • If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it's still a foolish thing.
  • If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
  • If I look confused it's because I'm thinking.
  • If a camel flies, no one laughs if it doesn't get very far.
  • If a man tells a woman she's beautiful she'll overlook most of his other lies.
  • If all the cars on the Earth were lined up bumper to bumper, some idiot would try to pass them.
  • If all the girls in Australia were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.
  • If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
  • If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
  • If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
  • If at first you don't succeed, give up, no use being a damn fool.
  • If at first you don't succeed, look in the trash for the instructions.
  • If at first you don't succeed, quit; don't be a nut about success.
  • If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.
  • If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
  • If at first you don't succeed, try a shorter bungee.
  • If blind people wear sunglasses, why don't deaf people wear earmuffs?
  • If everything seems to be going right, you obviously don't know what the hell is going on.
  • If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
  • If god is inside us, then I hope he likes Fajita's, cause that's what he's getting.
  • If god is watching us, the least we can do is be entertaining.
  • If homosexuality is a disease, can I call into work 'gay'?
  • If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
  • If it's stupid but works, it isn't stupid.
  • If life gives you lemons, stick them down your shirt and make your boobs look bigger.
  • If oranges smell like chicken, why are tomatoes blue? Think about it!
  • If the early bird catches the worm, what about the worm?
  • If the opposite of pro is con, then what must be the opposite of progress?
  • If things get any worse, I'll have to ask you to stop helping me.
  • If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
  • If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
  • If you are going through hell, keep going.
  • If you are going to walk on thin ice you might as well dance.
  • If you are not committing any sins, you are probably not having a lot of fun.
  • If you are willing to admit faults, you have one less fault to admit.
  • If you can see this, you're not blind, which is a very good start.
  • If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
  • If you can't remember, the claymore is pointed towards you.
  • If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
  • If you choke a smurf, what color does it turn?
  • If you didn't get caught, did you really do it?
  • If you don't care where you are, then you ain't lost.
  • If you put it off long enough, it might go away.
  • If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
  • If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
  • If you try and don't succeed, cheat. Repeat until caught. Then lie.
  • If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything.
  • If you're happy, you're successful.
  • If you're not having fun, then you're not doing it right.
  • Illegal drugs are the chlorine in the gene pool.
  • In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
  • In a world without walls and fences who needs Windows and Gates?
  • In the dark I hold your hand, because in the light you look like a man.
  • It has recently been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
  • It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
  • It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
  • It's better to be wanted for murder that not to be wanted at all.
  • It's better to keep your mouth shut and have people think you are a fool than to open it and remove any lingering doubt.
  • It's like deja vu all over again.
  • It's not reality that's important, but how you perceive things.
  • It's people that give drinking a bad name.
  • It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.
  • Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
  • Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
  • Lead me not into temptation. I can find the way myself.
  • Learn from my parent's mistake. Don't have kids!
  • Learn from your parents' mistakes - use birth control.
  • Learning from your mistakes is smart, learning from the mistakes of others is wise.
  • Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
  • Life exists for no known purpose.
  • Life is an open door. It can be closed at any time, so don't complain about the draught.
  • Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans.
  • Life's a bitch, and then you're reincarnated.
  • Life's a bleach and then you dye.
  • Linux: because rebooting is for adding new hardware.
  • Logic is in the eye of the logician.
  • Love is atemporary insanity curable by marriage.
  • Love may be blind but marriage is a real eye-opener.
  • Lunix... Because i'm better than you.
  • Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.
  • Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
  • Man who stands on toilet is high on pot.
  • Marriage. An expensive way of getting your laundry done for free.
  • Married men live longer than single men, but they're a lot more willing to die.
  • Matrimony isn't a word, it's a sentence.
  • Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
  • Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. 'No' is the answer.
  • Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life.
  • Money is the root of all evil, and man needs roots.
  • Money should be utilized as a tool. You just gotta know which nuts to screw.
  • Most people don't act stupid - it's the real thing.
  • Mother told me to be good, but she's been wrong before.
  • Never argue with a fool, they will lower you to their level and then beat you with experience.
  • Never buy a car you can't push.
  • Never call a man a fool. Borrow from him.
  • Never eat yellow snow.
  • Never get into fights with ugly people, they have nothing to lose.
  • Never hit a man with glasses. Hit him with a baseball bat.
  • Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
  • Never tell a lie unless it is absolutely convenient.
  • Never test the depth of the water with both feet.
  • Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
  • Never underestimate the power of a small tactical nuclear weapon.
  • Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
  • Never, ever make absolute, unconditional statements.
  • No good deed goes unpunished.
  • No-one suspects the butterfly!
  • Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
  • Not all men are fools... Some are bachelors.
  • Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
  • Nothing will dispel enthusiasm like a small admission fee.
  • Of course there's no reason for it, it's just our policy.
  • Old age is nothing to worry about, except if you're a cheese.
  • Old soldiers never die. Young ones do.
  • Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in.
  • One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.
  • Only dead fish go with the flow.
  • Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
  • People in cars cause accidents. Accidents in cars cause people.
  • Pretend to spank me - I'm a pseudo-masochist!
  • Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
  • Quando omni flunkus moritati - when all else fails, play dead.
  • Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand.
  • Reality is a nice place, but I wouldn't want to live there.
  • Reality is for people who can't handle drugs.
  • Rehab is for quitters.
  • Religion cannot be without morality, but morality may arrive without religion.
  • Roses are #FF0000, violets are #0000FF, all of my base are belong to you.
  • Save the whales. Collect the whole set.
  • Save water - take a bath with your neighbor's daughter.
  • Sex is like air; it's not important unless you aren't getting any.
  • Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. Yes is the answer.
  • Sex on tv can't hurt unless you fall off.
  • Sleep: a completely inadequate substitute for caffeine.
  • Smile, it's the second best thing you can do with your lips.
  • Smith & wesson: the original point and click interface.
  • Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
  • Software isn't released, it's allowed to escape.
  • Some cause happiness wherever they go. Others whenever they go.
  • Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.
  • Some people wish to get what they deserve, while others fear the same.
  • Sometimes a majority only means that all the fools are on the same side.
  • Sometimes the best helping hand you can give is a good, firm push.
  • Spelling is a lossed art.
  • Stop searching. Happiness is right next to you.
  • Support your local Search and Rescue unit. Get lost.
  • Sure, when... - oink flap oink flap - well I'll be darned!
  • Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
  • Take it easy, and if you get it easy take it twice.
  • Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
  • Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame someone else.
  • The Killer Ducks are coming!
  • The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
  • The beatings will continue until morale improves.
  • The best things in life aren't things.
  • The chance of a piece of bread falling the buttered side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.
  • The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
  • The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing.
  • The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them.
  • The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
  • The future will be better tomorrow.
  • The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
  • The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
  • The only certain thing in life is death.
  • The only job you start at the top is digging a hole.
  • The only really decent thing to do behind a person's back is pat it.
  • The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
  • The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
  • The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
  • The repairman will never have seen a model quite like yours before.
  • The revolution will not be televised.
  • The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
  • The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the ability to reach it.
  • The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
  • The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.
  • The trouble with ignorance is that it picks up confidence as it goes along.
  • The truth is what is; what should be is a dirty lie.
  • The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some good ideas!
  • The web isn't better than sex, but sliced bread is in serious trouble.
  • There are 10 types of people, those who understand binary and those who don't.
  • There are no short cuts to any place worth going.
  • There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.
  • There is no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole.
  • There is no time like the pleasant.
  • There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
  • There's too much blood in my alcohol system.
  • They call it "pms" because "mad cow disease" was already taken.
  • They're only trying to make me LOOK paranoid!
  • Think much, Speak little, Write less.
  • This sentence contradicts itself -- no actually it doesn't.
  • This website may not be idiot proof, but at least it's dimwit resistant.
  • This will be a memorable month -- no matter how hard you try to forget.
  • Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
  • To err is human, to forgive highly unlikely.
  • To generalize is to be an idiot.
  • To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
  • Today is the first day of the rest of this mess.
  • Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
  • Today's children would be less spoiled if we could spank grandparents!
  • Tomorrow will be canceled due to lack of interest.
  • Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
  • Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
  • Too much of everything is just enough.
  • Tracers work both ways.
  • Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
  • Unix is user friendly - it's just picky about it's friends.
  • Veni, Vidi, Velcro - I came, I saw, I stuck around.
  • Veni, vedi, visa. I came. I saw. I did a little shopping.
  • Viewer discretion may be advised, but it's never really expected.
  • War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
  • Warning: Dates in calendar are closer than they appear.
  • Wasting time is an important part of living.
  • We all can't be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the sides and clap as they go by.
  • We found Jesus - he was behind the sofa all along.
  • We live in a society where pizza gets to your house before the police.
  • Welcome what you can't avoid.
  • What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
  • What the hell, go ahead and put all your eggs in one basket.
  • What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.
  • When I am sad, I sing, and then the world is sad with me.
  • When I was young I was told that anyone could be president. Now I'm beginning to believe it.
  • When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
  • When all else fails, admit i'm right and kiss my ass.
  • When blondes have more fun, do they know it?
  • When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
  • When in doubt empty the magazine.
  • When in doubt, do what the President does. Guess.
  • When in doubt, poke it with a stick.
  • When it's dark enough you can see the stars.
  • When someone points skyward, it's the fool that looks at the finger.
  • When the pin is pulled, Mr. grenade is not our friend.
  • When vultures fly, are they allowed carrion luggage?
  • When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut.
  • When you don't know what you are doing, do it neatly.
  • When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
  • Which is worse: Ignorance or apathy? Who knows? Who cares?
  • While having never invented a sin, I'm trying to perfect several.
  • Who are these kids and why are they calling me mom?
  • Why buy shampoo when real poo is still free.
  • Why do they use sterile needles for lethal injections?
  • Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?
  • Wise people think all they say; fools say all they think.
  • With a rubber duck, you're never alone.
  • With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.
  • Work harder: millions on welfare depend on you.
  • Work is the curse of the drinking class.
  • Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
  • Worry is a misuse of the imagination.
  • Worry is like a rocking chair; it keeps you busy, but gets you nowhere.
  • You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.
  • You can observe a lot just by watching.
  • You can only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
  • You can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish.
  • You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.
  • You don't have to explain something you never said.
  • You will be a winner today. Pick a fight with a four-year-old.
  • You're driving a car. It isn't a telephone booth, a beauty parlor or a restaurant.
  • You're just jealous because the little voices only talk to me.
  • You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
  • You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
  • Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.
Do you know a good one-liner that's not listed here? Be sure to send it to me! Let me know if you want to be credited or not.
Thanks to: Taryn East, Chris, Steve H, Andy, Alexis Valin, Sam Longoria, Andrew Carr, Bronwyn Deckert, Jerry, Cal Skeptic, Amy Arbour, Marv Gratton, JL, William Burke.
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