Douglas Adams on clever jabs

I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

Winston Churchill1874–1965

Thus far, the reputed idiot Bush has graduated from Yale and Harvard, made a stack of cash in the oil industry, become the first consecutive-term governor of Texas, defeated a dual-term VP for the presidency, and led his party to [November 5th’s] extraordinary triumphs. Let his opponents keep calling him stupid; if they do, within five years Bush will be King of England, the Pope, and world Formula One motor racing champion.

Tim Blairborn 1965

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I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Mark Twain1835–1910