“Stop complaining about the price of your gas. Be thankful your car doesn't run on bottled water.”
David A. Ridenour, "If Your Car Ran on Bottled Water, You'd be Paying $6.40 a Gallon," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 1, 2006
“Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can complain that it doesn't hold water.”
Thomas Lansing Masson (1927) Tom Masson's Book of Wit & Humor. p. 1.
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