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Dilbert's
quotes from “Induhviduals” (there's a bunch!)
"Just because he's our landlord doesn't mean he owns the place."
"Wasn't bronchitis a dinosaur?"
"All old people should be shot at birth."
"I know that area of town like the back of my head."
“Let’s lick this one in the butt."
“If there was a rainbow at night, how would you know it was there?"
"If you fall and break your leg, don't come running to me!"
"He's as sharp as a new penny."
"A penny saved is worth two in the bush."
“This thing is hanging over my head like a bad penny.”
"I just want to be sure that we cross all the i's and dot the t's."
"Make sure you cross your p's and q's."
"Be sure we all cross our eyes."
"Let’s not stick our heads in the mud and drink our own bath water."
"A little pain never hurt anyone."
"Perception is 99% of the law."
"I hate to throw cold water on your bubble."
"I think you play a little harder when you can taste the light at the end of the tunnel."
"The squeaky wheel is the one that makes the most noise."
"My arms were knee-deep in mud."
"That's not my bag of game."
"That's going to be a tough animal to crack."
"He could talk a dog's ass off the hind leg of a mule."
"...been chasing this rabbit for years and it finally came home to roost."
"For this to work, you really have to be out there humping the bushes."
"Isn't leather made out of wood?"
"You know, I think the sun may be the biggest thing in the world."
"You're only smart on the outside."
"I am not the woman I used to be, and I never was!"
“The problem is we have too many Indians and not enough chickens.”
“We want this to be effective with a capital A!”
“Stands out like a dog’s sore thumb.”
“We have to go back and look at each other in the mirror.”
“He doesn’t have half a brain to piss in!”
“She used enough Scotch Tape to feed a third world country.”
“There is enough water here to sink a fish!”
“They need to get all their ducks in one sock”.
"The key to our success will be your execution."
"You're a minefield of information."
"You're like a snowball gathering steam."
“What part of ‘no’ don’t you understand? Is it the ‘N’, or the ‘Zero’?”
"It's an exercise in fertility."
"Hindsight is 50-50."
"Just use your own excretion."
"You are never going to fail unless you try."
"We're scraping the bottom of the iceberg."
"Today is like the day Rome was built in. We can't afford to have any fiddlers."
"The project is going down the toilet in flames."
"He might be barking at a red herring."
"You're treading on thin water."
"He's as deaf as a bat."
"We don't want to stick our necks out and get our asses chopped off."
"I gave him a real mouthful."
"I really took the bull by the hands."
"He doesn't know his hole from an ass in the ground."
"You should talk to her. She is a minefield of information."
"I can't remember but it's right on the tip of my head!"
"Thanksgiving is early this year because the first Thursday fell on a Monday."
"We need an escape goat."
"That really burns my craw!"
"Don't bite the gift horse."
"That makes the hair on the back of my neck really stick in my craw."
"Never screw a gift-horse in the mouth."
"He's trying to pull the buffalo over our eyes."
"I've got a real beef to grind with that guy."
"He opened up that can of worms, let him swim in them."
"I don't know about him, but it's completely win-win for me."
"I don't want to put all my monkeys in one barrel."
"Please don't leave me out with the wolves to dry!"
"I have ears like a hawk."
"We don't want to go at it like a wild bull in Chinatown."
"We shoot ourselves in the wrong feet sometimes."
"You gotta walk with your pants on."
"Layoffs are extremely difficult for all of us -- especially those at risk of losing their jobs."
"We better cover our ass and put it on their heads."
"Sometimes you've just got to grab the cow by the tail and face the music."
"I don't know what else I can do...my shoes are tied."
"Sounds like we're swimming an uphill battle."
"Get on with the bandwagon, or get out of the pot."
"You're opening a complete can of Pandora's worms there."
"Don't cry wolf until it's soup...and it's not soup yet."
"Our product will eat the pants off the competition!"
"Utopia? What's that, a country?"
"Let's all corrugate over here to view the artist's contraception of our new building."
"If you're sick, you'd better not come in. I don't want you to start an academic."
"In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed horse is king!"
"A two-prawn approach is necessary."
"He won't last, he's just a flash in the pants."
"It's a catch 20-20."
"I think you might have hit the nail on the button."
". . . caught between a rock and a wet spot."
"Don't worry; I've got an ace up my hole."
"The carrot at the end of the tunnel."
"We are going to be shooting from the seat of our pants"
"Vision is in the eyes of the beholder."
"Part of the verbiage is a language thing."
"Eventually, I want it now."
"There are a lot of areas for efficiency reductions."
"In the last year, you've turned around 150%."
