When I see a bird
When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
– Richard C. Cushing
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When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
– Richard C. Cushing
0It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them.
– George Foreman
0Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.
– Guy Debord
0There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
0Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?
– Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
0There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
– Christopher Morley
0Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
– Anthony Burgess
0Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
– Baltasar Gracian
0Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.
– Latin Proverb
0Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
– St. Bernard
0If men can run the world, why can’t they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?
– Linda Ellerbee
0There is no such thing as a moral dress. It’s people who are moral or immoral.
– Jennie Jerome Churchill
0UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
– Elayne Boosler
0If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by “vanity” only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.
– Yousef Karsh
0They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them.
– Joyce Grenfell
0There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.
– Paula Poundstone
0Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
– Alexandre Dumas pere
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