Two Quotes - Page 217
Life is a sandwich of activity between two periods of bed-wetting.
Padgett Powell (2010). “The Interrogative Mood”, p.23, Profile Books
Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.
P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.265, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Owen D. Young, Gerard Swope (1930). “Selected Addresses of Owen D. Young, Chairman of Board of Directors, and Gerard Swope, President, General Electric Company”
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
The Canterville Ghost pt. 1 (1887) See George Bernard Shaw 58
There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.
"Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations".
Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.191, Faber & Faber
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Over the Teacups”, p.148, Reprint Services Corporation
Oliver Sacks (2007). “Vintage Sacks”, p.116, Vintage
Nixon's motto was, if two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
1979 In the Daily Telegraph, 17 Jul.