A good heavy book holds you down. It’s an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic. - Roy Blount Jr.

I know, you want to make a citizen's arrest of anyone whose menu lists "Idaho potato baked in it's skin," but you can't.

English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.

People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be done unto as they want to be done unto.