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We Are Still Speaking The Same Language, But Neither Of Us Is Hearing The Other.
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We are still speaking the same language,
but neither of us is hearing the other.
-- Hafez Assad, on Syrian relations with Egypt, in "Time", 3 April 1989
Related:
There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.
-- Jim Hightower, Texas Agricultural Commissioner, in "Time", 3 April 1989...
The speaking of any language other than English is prohibited in any public place of Sweet Home, Oregon.
Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock.
Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history....
By long-standing tradition, I take this opportunity to savage other designers in the thin disguise of good, clean fun.
-- P. J. Plauger, from his April Fool's column in April 88's Computer Language...
A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity.
If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery....
We chased our pleasures here, dug out treasures there.
Can you still recall the time we cried? Break on through to the other side. -- The Doo...
April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue
but in deed and in truth. -- I. John 3:18...
No, no! Beware the Ides of APRIL! (Tax time!)