WHY LOVE HAPPENS BETWEEN TWO PARTICULAR PEOPLE
“No one is sure why it happens, but I heard it has something to do with how you smell … That’s why perfume and deodorant are so popular.”
Mae, age 9
ON WHAT FALLING IN LOVE IS LIKE
“Like an avalanche where you have to run for your life.”
John, age 9
“If falling in love is anything like learning how to spell, I don’t want to do it. It takes too long.”
Glenn, age 7
Here are some of my fav back-to-school quotes:
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. - Mark Twain
I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway. - George Michael
In grade school I was smart, but I didn’t have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends. - David Spade
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. - H. L. Mencken
Here are the top 5 proverbs as finished by grade one students at a public school in the US
1. Don’t bite the hand that . . . looks dirty.
2. Better to be safe than . . . punch a 5th grader.
3. If you lie down with dogs, you . . . will stink in the morning.
4. Where there is smoke, there is . . . pollution.
5. If at first you don’t succeed . . . get new batteries.
These are some famous religious quotes that seem to ring quite true.
- “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
Mohandas Gandhi
- “When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.”
Frank Sinatra
- “Born again?! No, I’m not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.”
Dennis Miller
