"People think it would be fun to be……" — Jack Handey
"People think it would be fun to be a bird because you could fly. But they forget the negative side, which is the preening."
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397 Quotes by Jack Handey
Jack Handey has 397 quotes on this site.
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If any man says he hates war more than I do, he better have a knife, that's all I have…
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I hope that after I die, people will say of me: 'That guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
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The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.
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I guess of all my uncles, I liked Uncle Caveman the best. We called him Uncle Caveman because he lived…
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If I could be a bird, I'd be a Flying Purple People Eater, because then people would sing about me…
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Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset? And he's…
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What is it about a beautiful sunny afternoon, with the birds singing and the wind rustling through the leaves, that…
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Not screaming in terror like his passengers.
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Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but I told that story around…
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MEMORIES OF MY FAMILY MEETINGS still are a source of strength to me. I remember we'd all get into the…
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I BET WHEN NEANDERTHAL KIDS would make a snowman, someone would always end up saying, "Don't forget the thick heavy…
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It's true that every time you hear a bell, an angel gets its wings. But what they don't tell you…
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More Aviation Quotes
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Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.
— Neil Armstrong
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Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's…
— Douglas Adams
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More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot…
— Cecil Beaton
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In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
— Robert Benchley
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
— Mel Brooks
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When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece…
— Kalpana Chawla
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I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation.…
— Michael P. Anderson
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To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
— Otto Lilienthal
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My first wife didn't like to fly, either.
— Gordon Baxter
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The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a…
— Benny Hill
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
— Jonathan Swift
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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
— Will Durant
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