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
The Nancy Reagan quote still cracks me up after all these years, but the “Kenneth, what is the frequency?” just weirds me out…maybe that’s the reason I never liked the REM song much! Huh…figure out something new every day. ;)
You know, I totally get what Nancy’s saying . . .