The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer. – Paula Poundstone
I used to watch The Waltons and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family. – Paula Poundstone
Im thankful for Sarah Palins vice presidential bid, which taught us that Alaska is not in a box off the coast of California. – Paula Poundstone
Im thankful for the three ounce Ziploc bag, so that I have somewhere to put my savings. – Paula Poundstone
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. – Mark Twain
Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. – John Kenneth Galbraith