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David Linthorne's avatar

If a monkey were to hoard more bananas than he could eat in a lifetime, while at the same time watching all the other monkeys starve, scientists would want to study that monkey to see what was wrong with him.

However if he were a human, we would put him on the cover of Forbes magazine.

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Michael Eisbrener's avatar

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress. - Mark Twain

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it. - Mark Twain

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats. - Will Rogers

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected. - G.K. Chesterton

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