Humor Files: Tag Lines and One-Liners

Among the most popular approaches to humor in the BBS world and Internet has been the clever, witty, gets-you-in-the-back one-liner or "tag line", which contains an amount of humor way out of proportion to the statement that generates it. It's one thing to chuckle a few times when you read a multi-page story, but it's impressive to laugh out loud at a single sentence. Here's a collection of those single sentences.


Filename
Size
Description of the Textfile
1liners.cap 57783
Extremely Large Collection of One-Liners
ansafone.txt 43174
A Collection of Funny Answering Machine Messages
aphorism.txt 6868
Some General Profundities, Witticisms and General Wisdom
bbob 2807
Collection of One-Liners from BOB
blake.txt 2248
Blakeisms: Quotes from William Blake
bonehead.txt 16338
Steve's Big List of Quotes
cookie.2 45023
The Fortune Cookie File from Karl Lehenbauer (January 14, 1989) Part 2
cookie.3 49756
The Fortune Cookie File from Karl Lehenbauer (January 14, 1989) Part 3
cookie.4 38238
The Fortune Cookie File from Karl Lehenbauer (January 14, 1989) Part 4
cookie.5 46978
The Fortune Cookie File from Karl Lehenbauer (January 14, 1989) Part 5
cookie.6 32646
The Fortune Cookie File from Karl Lehenbauer (January 14, 1989) Part 6
cookie.7 41825
The Fortune Cookie File from Karl Lehenbauer (January 14, 1989) Part 7
cute.say 4793
A Collection of Cute Sayings from Michael J. Irvin (August 7, 1989)
fdt 4120
Some Taglines Seen on the SuperDuperInfoHighway and Byways
found.hum 27482
Collection of Amusing Quips, Quotes and Stories
fudd.txt 5069
A Collection of Elmer Fuddified Sayings and Taglines
grouchy.txt 31514
Some Quotes from Various People
misc_pro.quo 3754
Miscellaneous Programmer Quotes
morequot.jok 1479
Quotes from Lecturers at Cambridge University
oscar.wil 982
Quotes of Oscar Wilde
quoterwz.txt 43083
The Big Ol' Quotes File
quotes-1.txt 46721
Large Collection of Jokes and Quotes
quotes-2.txt 55855
Second Part to the Large Collection of Jokes and Quotes
quotes.bug 2384
Collection of Lesser Known Quotes from the Engineers of Hewlett Packard
quotes.frt 102576
Large Collection of Funny Quotes
quotes.hum 24619
Some Random Quotes from Around the World
quotes.jok 16782
Collection of Interesting Quotes from All Over
quotes.txt 35079
Some Quotes from the Usenet Newsgroup "rec.arts.comics"
quotes2.hum 23381
Some Additional Random Quotes From Around the World
quotes2.txt 15244
Very Large Collection of Historical Quotes
random.txt 4250
Random Assortment of Taglines
taglines.txt 25856
Alphabetized Collection of Computer-Oriented Taglines
text.txt 98645
Large Collection of Quotes

There are 33 files for a total of 957,352 bytes.