Yes, back on the 8th Grade kick again… Sorry folks. But in 1988 I created a list of quotes for each school day of the week, and posted them up (one day at a time) in my Math class. Here are the quotes for May of ‘88. Most all of them are just as topical today as they were then…

May 2 -”By definition, when investigating the unknown, you do not know what you are looking for.”
May 3 -”The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone he can blame it on.”
May 4 -”Ever notice there are no Chinese guys named Rusty?”-George Carlin
May 5 -”The difference between manners and morals is, that with manners, if there are no witnesses, it doesn’t count.”-Miss Manners
May 6 -”You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?”-Steven Wright

May 9 -”Living in California adds ten years to a man’s life. And those ten years I’d like to spend in New York.”-Harry Ruby
May 10-”[Reagan] needs to drop bread crumbs on his way into sentences to find his way out again.”-Sherry Coben
May 11-”Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside a dog, it’s too dark to read.”-Groucho Marx
May 12-”I think more people would be alive today if there was a death penalty.”-Nancy Reagan
May 13-”Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.”-H.L. Mencken

May 16-”Things will get worse before they get better. But who said things would get better?”
May 17-”Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were an member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”-Mark Twain
May 18-”Never argue with a fool– people might not know the difference.”
May 19-”A man with one watch knows what time it is. A man with two is never sure.”
May 20-”The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is increasing.”

May 23-”Men and nations will act rationally only when all other possibilities have been exhausted.”
May 24-”It’s big enough to take care of itself.”-Ronald Reagan on the deficit
May 25-”TV is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn’t have in your home.”-David Frost
May 26-”Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.”
May 27-”Anything that begins well, ends badly. Anything that begins badly, ends worse.”

May 30-”Kenneth, what is the frequency?”-Men who assaulted Dan Rather on Park Avenue
May 31-”Can’t act. Can’t sing, Can dance a little.”-MGM Executive seeing Fred Astaire’s screen test, 1928