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Jon Carter's words of wisdom page 1 page2 Page3 Updated 8-22-09

This section features miscellaneous little observations and ponderances from the notebooks I've written in over the years. If you're looking for sage advice on a serious matter in your life... well, don't look here. But if laughter is what you need...well, don't look here either. Just read on and you'll understand...

  • I don't get mad. I don't get even... hey, I just realized... I don't do anything.
  • Make love not peace.
  • One time I put a quarter in a vending machine and it said to me, "Hey, how do you expect me to put my kids through college with this chump change?!!!"
  • One time a friend of mine came to my house. He says "Hey, buddy, you've owed me fifty bucks for the last year and a half, now enough's enough-- cough it up!" I literally coughed up the money. He got really scared, forgot about the money and ran off. Try it some time, it really works!
  • Objects in Miro appear closer than they art.
  • Petrology: Science dealing with rocks. Petrockogy: Science dealing with pet rocks.
  • "I'm the one who said all those great anonymous quotes." - anonymous
  • "$12.95" - From the book of all-time great quotes.
  • Happiness is a happiness t-shirt.
  • Give people an inch and they call you a tight-wad.
  • The best way to find something you lost is to go out and buy another one. Then when you get back home you'll find the lost item immediately.
  • Dogs are such great pets. I have a dog that lives in a ditch in the back yard. He howls, drinks beer..... No, wait... that's my Uncle Tony. Nevermind.
  • If you miss your big break in life just remember this: opportunity is only a chance to disappoint more people than you already are.
  • There's a fine line between being a meteorologist and a meaty urologist.
  • Agent Blue: "I'm still mad about the health problems you gave me in Vietnam" Agent Red: "That wasn't me, that was Agent Orange."
  • Paralysis runs in my family.
  • The optimist says the glass is half full, but what if it's half full of crap?
  • A black guy walks into a bar and says to the bartender "have you seen a Polish guy and a Rabbi around here?"
  • A paraplegic walks into a bar and says "Lord, it's a miracle!"
  • A dyslexic guy walks into a bar and says to the bartender "give me a reeb."
  • A beer walks into a bar and says "give me a drunk."
  • A school test writer walks into a bar and says to the bartender "give me a ____________."
  • God bless pantheism.
  • There's a fine line between a clear conscience and bouts of amnesia.
  • My car slows down faster than it speeds up.
  • All of comedy is the same joke redone a billion different ways.
  • I dedicated my last haircut to all the janitors.