"Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them 
almost anything"
--HERB GARDNER

San Cristobal was full of hippies.  There were
way-back hippies growing gray, spreading out under their caftans, and
straining the buttons on their embroidered work shirts.  There were
new-hatched neohippies fumbling with the icons of the Sixties
wondering whether the peace symbol is supposed to be used mainly as a
nose stud or also as a pierced eyebrow ornament.  And there were
smelly European backpacker hippies, age indeterminate, telling the
locals, "Ich bin ein Vegan."
        --P.J. O'Rourke

For economists, the real world is often a special case.
Ask five economists and you'll get five different explanations (six if one went to Harvard). 

    -- Edgar R. Fiedler

We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools;
that's the only way most of us got through.

- Sam Levenson 

"I went to watch Pavarotti once.
He doesn't like it when you join in."

Mick Miller.