A penny will not buy a penny postcard or a penny whistle or a single piece of penny candy. It will not even, if you're managing the U.S. Mint, buy a penny.

The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.

The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.

We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.

Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue.

The killjoys initiated automobile crash standards so rigorous that we can't buy a car that hasn't been dropped from the top of a phone pole with our whole family strapped inside.