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Jack Handey
9 quotes
“If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.”
Jack Handey (born 1949) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Deep Thoughts: Inspiration for the Uninspired (1992), Berkley Books,
“I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it.”
Jack Handey (born 1949) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Deep Thoughts: Inspiration for the Uninspired (1992), Berkley Books,
“If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is "Probably because of something you did.”
Jack Handey (born 1949) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Deep Thoughts: Inspiration for the Uninspired (1992), Berkley Books,
“It takes a big man to cry, but it takes an even bigger man to laugh at that man.”
Jack Handey (born 1949) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Deep Thoughts: Inspiration for the Uninspired (1992), Berkley Books,
“IF YOU ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let 'em go, because man, they're gone.”
Jack Handey (born 1949) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Deeper Thoughts : All New, All Crispy (1993), Hachette Books,
“TO ME, it's a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around. That way, if anybody says, "Hey, can you give me a hand?" you can say, "Sorry, got these sacks.”
Jack Handey (born 1949) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Deeper Thoughts : All New, All Crispy (1993), Hachette Books,
“IF YOU GO through a lot of hammers each month, I don't think it necessarily means you're a hard worker. It may just mean that you have a lot to learn about proper hammer maintenance.”
Jack Handey (born 1949) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Deeper Thoughts : All New, All Crispy (1993), Hachette Books,
“MAYBE in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself. Basically, it's made up of two separate words — "mank" and "ind." What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.”
Jack Handey (born 1949) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Deeper Thoughts: All New, All Crispy (1993), Hachette Books,
“I guess we were kinda poor when we were kids, but we didn't know it. That's because my dad always refused to let us look at the family's financial records.”
Jack Handey (born 1949) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fuzzy Memories (1996), Andrews McMeel Publishing,