Daily FortunesApr 6, 2012
In Devon, Connecticut, it is unlawful to walk backwards after...
In Devon, Connecticut, it is unlawful to walk backwards after sunset.
In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as...
In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last
resort of the scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but
inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
In English, every word can be verbed. Would that it were so...
In English, every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our
programming languages.
In Greene, New York, it is illegal to eat peanuts and walk...
In Greene, New York, it is illegal to eat peanuts and walk backwards on
the sidewalks when a concert is on.
In India, "cold weather" is merely a conventional...
In India, "cold weather" is merely a conventional phrase and has come
into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish
between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which
will only make it mushy.
-- Mark Twain
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