by Dave Barry
01. “You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.”
02. “What Women Want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What Men Want: Tickets for the world series.”
03. “If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'"
04. “It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells . . . to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.”
05. “Washington is nicknamed "The Evergreen State" because it sounds better than "The Incessant Nagging Drizzle State."”
06. “All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears - of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark, or speaking before a Rotary Club, and of the words "Some Assembly Required”
07. “People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them. ”
08. "The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting."
09. "Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around."
10. "I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories."
Fox Mulder
The X-Files
Trust No One