"After all, what is a pedestrian? He is a man who has two cars—one being driven by his wife, the other by one of his children."
Robert Bradbury, city official, Liverpool, England
"I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about."
Elliott Abrams, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs
"If you have a bowl of apples and you eat the best ones first, then you have only the best ones left."
Shelly Horton
"It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less."
Francis Bacon, English philosopher and statesman Of Cunning
"Language is a living, kicking, growing, flitting, evolving reality, and the teacher should spontaneously reflect its vibrant and protean qualities."
"Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled. Mahomet called the hill to come to him, again and again; and when the hill stood still he was never a whit abashed, but said, “If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.”"
Francis Bacon, English philosopher and statesman Of Boldness
"Men in great place are thrice servants,—servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business."
Francis Bacon, English philosopher and statesman Of Great Place
"Menswear is an eight-lane highway with nobody on it."
Arthur Ortenberg, husband of fashion designer Liz Claiborne
"Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel."
Francis Bacon, English philosopher and statesman Of Travel
"When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course."
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