”The thing that appalls me about the newspaper business is the numbers of trees it consumes.”
-Britain`s Prince Charles, showing his frustration with press accounts of a rift with Princess Diana.
”The hoary old belief that housewives use headaches as an excuse for refusing their husbands is a myth. Most women know that sex is good for headaches.”
-London physician Tom Smith, on a Gallup survey that revealed that only 2 percent of women polled in Britain used the excuse.
”I`m Robert Healey, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor and the Illinois Federation of Teachers. But, I`m told, I`m not here in either capacity.”
-Healey, reflecting the official AFL-CIO position of neutrality in the Democratic presidential race at a union-dominated Miami Beach reception for Sen. Paul Simon.
”Biting someone`s ear off is not within the rules of the game and not within the normal give-and-take the sport allows.”
-Auckland Judge John Cadenhead, sentencing a New Zealand rugby player to six months in jail for biting off an opponent`s ear.
”He`s a very, very religious man, and I think he honestly feels that he has an 800 line straight up to God.”
-Former Sen. Barry Goldwater, in suggesting that Arizona`s controversial, outspoken Gov. Evan Mecham resign for the good of conservatism.
