It was just a big flash. It pretty much blew me to the other side of the truck. It all happened so fast, I didn't even know what hit me. I was knocked out. |
It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them. |
It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel. |
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day. |
Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed. |
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem |
Muscles come and go; flab lasts |
Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking. |
People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong. |
Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief |
Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career |
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. |
The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears. |
The tax collector must love poor people - he's creating so many of them |
The tax collector must love poor people - he's creating so many of them |