>Ben Franklin was having trouble with his kite, and Mrs Ben came
>out to offer some advice. "You need more tail."
>
>"That's what I said this morning, and you told me to go fly a kite."
For some reason that reminds me of the skydiver whose chute doesn't open. As he scrambles frantically at the ripcord he sees a guy with a wrench and butane torch in his hands coming up towards him fast. The skydiver yells "Hey, you know anything about parachutes?"
and as the other guy passes him going up he yells back "No, you know anything about gas stoves ? "
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
