Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?
—Lily Tomlin
If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names.
—Elaine Gill
When composer Igor Stravinsky was fifty-seven, he settled in the United States and a year later decided to apply for American citizenship. He made an appointment to see the appropriate official. At his first interview the official asked the famous composer his name. "Stra-vin-sky," he replied, speaking each syllable distinctly. "You could change it, you know," suggested the official.
—Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
—Plato