One-Liners / Quotes / Puns

Genre : Humor (One – liners,  puns  and the likes….)

  • Descartes walks into a bar. The bartender asks, “Would you like a beer?” Descartes replies, “I think not”, then disappeared
  • Why do we refer to the area between a woman’s breasts and her hip as a waist?
    They could have fit another set of breasts in there.
  • After hurricane katrina struck new orleans Bush didn’t care abt the people of the place. He was slow in reconstructing the levee to prevent flooding. He was ignorant. Basically Bush didn’t give a DAM.

Genre : Serious

  • In life, unlike chess, the game continues after  a check mate – Anonymous
  • Once the game is over, both the King and pawn go back into the same box – Garry Kasparov
  • Everybody thinks of changing the society but nobody thinks of changing himself – Leo Tolstoy
  • Hope. It is a quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness – Matrix Reloaded
  • Life is what you miss on when you’re busy making other plans -  Anonymous
  • यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत ।
    अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम् ॥४-७॥
    परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम् ।
    धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय सम्भवामि युगे युगे ॥४-८॥ (Bhagwad Gita)
  • The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible – Anonymous
  • Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up – Thomas Alva Edison
  • Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what is right – Issac Asimov
  • Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things and no good thing ever dies – Andy Duffrain, Shawshank Redemption
  • If fate does not make you laugh, then you just don’t get the joke – Gregory David Roberts , Shantaram
  • The worst thing about corruption as a form of governance is that it actually works very well – Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
  1. prajna
    March 11, 2009 at 2:41 pm | #1

    I loved the serious one-liners. They are larger in number too. May be because it is easier to be serious than to make people laugh.

  2. tulsidas123
    March 11, 2009 at 5:11 pm | #2

    >>May be because it is easier to be serious than to make people laugh.

    You are right. Never thought of it that way. :)
    Maybe that could be an addition to the ’serious one-liners’. :D

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