You can listen to thunder after lightening and tell how close you came to 
getting hit.

If you don't hear it you got hit, so never mind. 

"Caesar is all things to all men!"
"It must be hell in there..."
                        -- Moriarty (aka Spike Milligan), Major Bloodnock
                                (aka Peter Sellers), The Goon Show

"I was really worried, I've never seen you come so quickly..."
                        -- Angela Randall

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize
a mistake when you make it again.

- F. P. Jones 

Although plastic was brought into industrial use in 1909 by L.H. Baekland 
of Yonkers, it was not until the end of World War II that the modern 
miracle substance was used in a wide variety of consumer goods, among 
them speedboats, dentures and flamingos. Previously flamingos were made 
of cement. Before that they were made by other flamingos.


- William E. Geist, The New York Times