A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this
       to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. --
       Nietzsche

"They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy;
foreigners always spell better than they pronounce."

                                           -- Mark Twain

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of
others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

    -- Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

               No labour bestowed upon a worthless thing can be productive
               of fruit; even by a hundred efforts a crane cannot be made  
               to talk like a parrot.                                      

                                             The Hitopadesa (600?-1100? A.D.)

A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass.
   Motorists are asked to be on the lookout for sixteen hardened
   criminals.
         Ronnie Corbett