Quotes, July 2001
***No quotes for June 18 - July 22 due to holiday in the US***
23. The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
- Rita Mae Brown
24. No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
- H.L. Mencken
25. I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go west.
- Richard Jeni
26. Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American Dream?
- Homer Simpson
27. I think my favorite sport in the Olympics is the one in which you make your way through the snow, you stop, you shoot a gun, and then you continue on. In most of the world, it is known as the biathlon, except in New York City, where it is known as winter.
- Michael Ventre
28. Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
29. Of course, America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
- Oscar Wilde
30. I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?
- Bill Watterson, American cartoonist "Calvin and Hobbes"
31. If something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.
- Bill Watterson, American cartoonist "Calvin and Hobbes"
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