Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one [which would] send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth — boxes of Crayolas. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination instead of death. A child who touched one wouldn’t have his hand blown off. -Robert Fulghum-

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. -H.L. Mencken-

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world … has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby. -H.L. Mencken-

Is any of this getting through to you son? That kid’s about as sharp as a bowling ball. -Foghorn Leghorn-

She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.

The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn’t.

McBride fell 12 storeys, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.

Ouch! That hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. -John F. Kennedy-

Never bring a problem to your seniors without also bringing a solution. -CAPT John L Wallace, U.S. Navy (Ret)-