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"That's the trouble with women these days. They act like men and want to be treated like women" (An American in Paris)
On an American Airlines package of nuts: Instructions: Open package, eat nuts.
Sign in a hotel elevator in Paris:
"Please leave your values at the front desk."
No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.-- H. L. Mencken
The American public knows what it wants, and deserves to get it good and hard.-- H. L. Mencken
"Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure and very dead."-- Sinclair Lewis
"In America--as elsewhere--free speech is confined to the dead."-- Mark Twain
That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans and Americans. A European says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with me?" An American says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?"-- Terry Pratchett (alt.fan.pratchett)
98% of us Americans are hard-working people. It's the other 2% that give us a bad reputation. Then again, we did elect them.
Dustin Pons, an American high-school student who attended a Soviet school for three weeks, as quoted in the New York Times: "American teenagers are more socially advanced. For instance, in their free time Soviets would rather read a book or walk in the park or play the piano. American teenagers would probably go out and watch TV, go to a movie, or something more actively inclined." ("The Progressive")
"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress."-- Mark Twain