Encyclopedia of Humor

Common sense is not so common.

Common sense is the most evenly distributed quantity in the world. Everyone thinks he has enough. – Descartes, 1637

Communication with the dead is only a little more difficult than communication with (Insert Your Favorite Group – Engineering/Financial…)

Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.

Complex problems have simple, easy to understand, wrong answers.

Confession is good for the soul, but bad for the career.

Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.

Confusion creates jobs.

Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels good.

Conscious is being aware of something; conscience is wishing you weren’t

By the time you can make ends meet, they’ve moved the ends.

By the time you have the right answers, no one is asking you questions.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to work twelve hours a day. – Robert Frost

Cant produces countercant.

Capitalism is based on the assumption that you can win.

Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.

Chipped dishes never break.

Clearly stated instructions will consistently produce multiple interpretations.

Cocaine is nature’s way of telling you you have too much money.

Commit suicide. A hundred thousand lemmings cannot be wrong.

Beware the fury of a patient man. – John Dryden

Beware the man of one book. – St. Thomas Aquinas

Beware the wrath of a patient person.

Blessed are those who go around in circles, for they shall be known as wheels.

Blessed is he who expects no gratitude, for he shall not be disappointed.

Blessed is he who has reached the point of no return and knows it for he shall enjoy living.

Boldly going forward because we cannot find reverse.

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

Build something foolproof and every fool will use it.

Bureaucracy: a method for transforming energy into solid waste.

Beauty is only skin deep, ugly goes clear to the bone.

Before you give a colleague a piece of your mind, be sure you can spare it.

Being a good communicator means people find out what is really wrong with you.

Believing is seeing.

Better latent than never.

Beware of a dark-haired man with a loud tie.

Beware of a tall dark man with a spoon up his nose.

Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.

Beware of one who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds themself no wiser than before. They are full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. – Sir John A. MacDonald, Canada’s first prime minister

Beware of those wearing suspenders with belts.

As the economy gets better, everything else gets worse.

As they say in Beirut, Shiite happens.

Asking dumb questions is easier than correcting dumb mistakes.

Assumption is the mother of all foul-ups.

At any level of traffic, any delay is intolerable.

Automatic simply means that you can’t repair it yourself.

Bad news drives good news out of the media.

Bare feet magnetize sharp metal objects so they always point upward from the floor.

Batman is the hero any of us could be, given determination, exercise, and deep psychological trauma. – Chris Jarocha-Ernst

Be content with what you’ve got, but be sure you’ve got plenty.