The British during World War ii came up with some imaginative ideas. One was to freeze the clouds, move them along the coast of southern England, and use them as platforms for antiaircraft guns.

—Richard Kehl

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Once, when a GI was visiting Pablo Picasso during the liberation of France, he said that he could not understand the artist's paintings: "Why do you paint a person looking from the side and from the front at the same time?" Picasso asked, "Do you have a girlfriend?" "Yes," replied the soldier. "Do you have a picture of her?" The soldier pulled from his wallet a photograph of the girl. Picasso looked at it in mock astonishment and asked, "Is she so small?

—Richard Kehl

[The philosopher] Wittgenstein writes about a man who, not being certain of an item he reads in the newspaper, buys one hundred copies of the paper to reassure himself of its truth.

—Richard Kehl

The fifteen-year-old daughter of a friend once addressed the old Carl Jung as follows: "Herr Professor, you are so clever. Could you please tell me the shortest path to my life's goal?" Without a moment's hesitation Jung replied, "The detour!

—Richard Kehl

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My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August.

—Ronnie Shakes

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Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

—Rebecca Johnson

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

—Michael Pritchard

Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.

—George Carlin

Time for the weather report. It's cold out folks. Bonecrushing cold. The kind of cold which will wrench the spirit out of a young man, or forge it into steel.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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