1.07.2008
A Few Good Ones
Willie Brown:
“It’s Better to Be Misquoted than not quoted at all.”
John Mockler:
“There are more village idiots than villages.”
Kurt Vonnegut:
“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and no one wants to do maintenance.”
Katie Lucas
“One frown gets everybody down.”
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Greg…Dee passed your efforts on to me, perhaps in the hope I don’t turn to mold ignoring most of the world & tending my fruit trees & grapes…
Twain (whose CT home we visited in ’05) said…
“Sometimes I wonder if the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it!”
Cheers,
Bob
Comment by Bob McCafferty — 1.11.2008 @ 3:13 pm