"Jesus,"

camper Mike giving the first answer to my riddle about finding out which of three light switches turns on a lightbulb in another room.

The UN has said one third of the dead have been children.

The daily star lebanon. July 31st
(lebanese death toll now over 750)

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until it gets so ugly you can hardly bear to look at it.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts theywill shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

--Roald Dahl, The Twits

Celery

Celery, raw,
Develops the jaw.
But celery, stewed,
Is more quietly chewed.

Reflections on Icebreaking

Candy
Is dandy
But liquor
Is quicker.

The Cow
The cow is of the bovine ilk;
One end is moo, the other, milk.

Ogden Nash

"Glasses cost two hundred dollars, but slaps are free,"

camper Mike explaining why he is upset about his broken glasses (broken by another camper who retaliated when slapped by Mike)

"...what's past is prologue...."

-Antonio, in Shakespeare's The Tempest (II, i, 279)

(also engraved on the National Archives Buliding in Washington, D.C.)

The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat, clean, quite solvent business
William Faulkner

"All the evangelism in the world from a church that is not herself holy and righteous will not be worth a hill of beans in world-changing power."

- Peter E. Gillquist, as quoted in The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience.

An irrepressible conflict has arisen between two national communities within the narrow bounds of one small country. There is no common ground between them. Their national aspirations are incompatible

A British Royal Commission on Palestine (From nearly 70 years ago) as quoted by Time Magazine

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the "dear deceit" of beauty.

-George Eliot, Adam Bede

"How can I lose to such an idiot?"

- A shout from chessmaster Aaron Nimzovich (1886-1935)

Thumps had always suspected that corporate life was not firmly anchored on moral bedrock, but if you were going to hell, riding your own helicopter was certainly a comfortable way to get there.

-Thomas King, writing as Hartley Goodweather, Dreadful Water Shows Up

United States is a great Country and has its effective role on the international arena, so we have to boost our relations with it, in order to achieve peace and stability in our region and the world.

Ali A. Saleh
President of Yemen

...personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures....

-Nick Carraway, narrator of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."

- Benjamin Franklin