Our language

Overheard at a grocery store by someone waiting in line behind a woman speaking on her cellphone in another language. Ahead of her was a white man. After she hung up, the man speaks up.

Man: "I didn't want to say anything while you were on the phone, but you're in America now. You need to speak English."

Woman: "Excuse me?"

Man: *very slowly* "If you want to speak Mexican, go back to Mexico. In America, we speak English."

Woman: "Sir, I was speaking Navajo. If you want to speak English, go back to England."

Panta rhei

"No man ever steps in the same river twice."

- Heraclitus

Natives

"Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs."

- Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography

Money

"The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money."

- Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography

Right on the spot

"Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one."

 - Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography