How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
-Marcus Aurelius
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
-Burt Bacharach
THE MAGNA CARTA (The Great Charter):
23. No village or individual shall be compelled to
make bridges at river banks, except those who from of
old were legally bound to do so.
Once, I stood in a queue, pretending to be just like everybody else. And then (without once letting my mask slip) I boarded the bus and travelled home. But when I got home... OH HOW I LAUGHED.
it rubs the lotion on its skin and then puts its shoes in the basket. tug, tug, tug! sniff, sniff, sniff!! eeuwww!!!
Truth would quickly cease to become stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.
-Henry Louis Mencken
it is a sign of a pathological society to have monuments of hospital centers to keep itself functioning.
They hang the man and flog the woman
That steal the goose from off the common
But let the greater villain loose
That steals the common from the goose.
- England, 18th cent.
Statistically, flying is the safest mode of transportation.
Statistically, nobody survives a plane crash.
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