Monday, January 14, 2013

Pearls of Wisdom .... Part 1/5


Give a man a fish and you'll feed him for a day. Give him religion and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.
            ~ Timothy Jones
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When the white missionaries came to Africa, they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.
            ~ Desmond Tutu
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America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real, but the moon landing was faked.
            ~ David Letterman
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I'm not a paranoid, deranged millionaire. God dammit! I'm a billionaire.
            ~ Howard Hughes
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After the game, the King and the pawn go into the same box.
            ~ Italian proverb
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Men are like linoleum floors. Lay 'em right and you can walk all over them for thirty years.
            ~ Betsy Salkind

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