Jack Handey

Jack Handey (1949-) is an American writer and humorist. He is most well known as a writer on Saturday Night Live. His surreal one-liner "Deep Thoughts" were compiled into books and memorably appeared on SNL between 1991 and 1998.


Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.

Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.

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.

If I ever get real rich, I hope I'm not real mean to poor people, like I am now.

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.

If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.

If you go flying back through time and you see somebody else flying forward into the future, it's probably best to avoid eye contact.

It makes me mad when people say I turned and ran like a scared rabbit. Maybe it was like an angry rabbit, who was going to fight in another fight, away from the first fight.

On the other hand...you have different fingers.

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.

When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep--not screaming, like the passengers in his car.

Whether they ever find life there or not, I think Jupiter should be considered an enemy planet.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.