"Age before beauty," said the devil as he threw his grandmother off' the stairs.
"Ahu" are stone platforms on which many moai sit. There are 313 known ahu and 125 of these carry moai. The biggest, Ahu Tongariki is 220 m (720 ft), and had the most (15) and tallest moai.
"All freight lightens," said the skipper, when he threw his wife overboard.
"All science is either physics or stamp collecting."
"Almost a hit," said the boy as he threw the stone at his dog and hit his stepmother's leg.
"Almost" and "About" prevent lying.
"Almost" never killed a fly.
"An egg is an egg," said the beadle, but he took the goose-egg.
"Android" is gender specific.
"Ascension Thursday" is 40 days after Easter and is when Christ was said to have ascended to heaven.
"Away with you, be a peddlar, a knave," says the hangman to his man.
"Bad company," said the thief, as he went to the gallows between the hangman and a monk.
"But" is a fence over which few leap.
"Come and I'll tell you something," tickles the ear.
"Come see me" and "Come live with me" are two different things.
People wear extraordinarily bright colours in India.
They can do least who boast loudest.
I'd love to go to Easter Island, Hawaii, Iceland and Antarctica.
Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.
After taking ninety-nine years to climb a stairway, the tortoise falls and says there is a curse on haste.
The lame goat does not take a siesta.
You might say that economic history is the history of people learning to manage risk.
David Letterman is the best late-night talk show host right now, hands down, and has been since he first took the desk.
If you want to go to a school with lower requirements, it doesn't diminish the education.
When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
It's about sharing. You just give what you have to give wherever you go, and you let God handle the rest.
Sometimes we are separated by differences, and sometimes we are united by common ideals of respect and compassion.
We are going to hire a woman who's going to direct a 'Star Wars' movie. I have no doubt.
