Top 400 Steven Wright Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “If you got into a taxi and the driver started driving backward, would the taxi driver end up owing you money?”

— Steven Wright

302. “I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn’t have to go so fast.”

— Steven Wright

303. “How young can you die of old age?”

— Steven Wright

304. “Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.”

— Steven Wright

305. “I eat swiss cheese. But I only nibble on it. I make the holes bigger.”

— Steven Wright

306. “If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?”

— Steven Wright

307. “Why is the third hand on a watch called a second hand?”

— Steven Wright

308. “Is it true that cannibals don’t eat clowns because they taste funny?”

— Steven Wright

309. “Winny would spend all of his time practicing limbo. He got pretty good. He could go under a rug.”

— Steven Wright

310. “How come you don’t ever hear about gruntled employees? And who has been dis-ing them anyhow?”

— Steven Wright

311. “The older you get, the more you learn to see what you’ve been taught to see. When you’re a kid, you see what’s there.”

— Steven Wright

312. “I like to talk about lint and coasters, the expansion of the universe and maybe McDonald’s. I’m completely turned off by the idea of politics.”

— Steven Wright

313. “How come Superman could stop bullets with his chest, but always ducked when someone threw a gun at him?”

— Steven Wright

314. “I had my coat hangers spayed.”

— Steven Wright

315. “Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates... When I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, “Do I know you?”

— Steven Wright

316. “When I have a kid, I want to buy one of those strollers for twins. Then put the kid in and run around, looking frantic. When he gets older, I’d tell him he used to have a brother, but he didn’t obey.”

— Steven Wright

317. “I bought an ant farm. I don’t know where I am going to get a tractor that small!”

— Steven Wright

318. “I invented the cordless extension cord.”

— Steven Wright

319. “I don’t have to walk my dog anymore. I walked him all at once.”

— Steven Wright

320. “All the plants in my house are dead – I shot them last night. I was teasing them by watering them with ice cubes.”

— Steven Wright

321. “Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do, write to them? Why don’t they just put their pictures on the postage stamps so the postmen can look for them while they deliver the mail?”

— Steven Wright

322. “I went to the fights, and a hockey game broke out.”

— Steven Wright

323. “If God dropped acid, would he see people?”

— Steven Wright

324. “I got a garage door opener. It can’t close. Just open.”

— Steven Wright

325. “After eating, do amphibians need to wait an hour before getting out of the water?”

— Steven Wright

326. “What I like about the jokes, to me it’s a lot of logic, no matter how crazy they are. It has to make absolute sense, or it won’t be funny.”

— Steven Wright

327. “Isn’t the best way to save face to keep the lower part shut?”

— Steven Wright

328. “I parked in the tow-away zone, and when I got back, the entire neighborhood was gone.”

— Steven Wright

329. “Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it because it’s dangerous.”

— Steven Wright

330. “I’m actually writing a short story about a photographer who went completely insane trying to take a close up photo of the horizon.”

— Steven Wright

331. “Laughing stock: cattle with a sense of humor.”

— Steven Wright

332. “I couldn’t find the remote control to the remote control.”

— Steven Wright

333. “Is boneless chicken considered to be an invertebrate?”

— Steven Wright

334. “I’m seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There’s no black and white to it. But sometimes I’m seeing it like I’m 4.”

— Steven Wright

335. “My girlfriend does her nails with white-out. When she’s asleep, I go over there and write misspelled words on them.”

— Steven Wright

336. “Because I don’t believe everything I read.”

— Steven Wright

337. “How do you get off a non-stop flight?”

— Steven Wright

338. “Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn’t zigzag?”

— Steven Wright

339. “Why do you press harder on a remote-control when you know the battery’s dead?”

— Steven Wright

340. “I had amnesia once or twice.”

— Steven Wright

341. “I was in the supermarket the other day, and I met a lady in the aisle where they keep the generic brands. Her name was ’woman.”

— Steven Wright

342. “I used to own an ant farm but had to give it up. I couldn’t find tractors small enough to fit it.”

— Steven Wright

343. “When I was five years old I was on a merry go round. There was a gunshot nearby. The horses stampeded. There I was running down the street on a purple wooden horse.”

— Steven Wright

344. “I’m standing behind a wall of jokes. You don’t know about my personal life, my girlfriends, or what I do when I’m not on the road. There’s this guy, this comedian, and this is how he thinks, but people really don’t know anything about me.”

— Steven Wright

345. “If you are sending someone some Styrofoam, what do you pack it in?”

— Steven Wright

346. “When I erase a word with a pencil, where does it go?”

— Steven Wright

347. “Why do they call it the Department of Interior when they are in charge of everything outdoors?”

— Steven Wright

348. “What do batteries run on?”

— Steven Wright

349. “I went camping and borrowed a circus tent by mistake. I didn’t notice until I got it set up. People complained because they couldn’t see the lake.”

— Steven Wright

350. “I saw a vegetarian wearing a furry coat. so I looked closer. it was made of grass.”

— Steven Wright