“Irwin Blitzer: Gentlemen, a bobsled is a simple thing. Man: Yeah, so's a toilet!”— Lynn Siefert, Michael Goldberg, Tommy Swerdlow, Irving 'Irv' Blitzer, John Candy, imdb.com
“Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land—it largely increases the product.”— P.T. Barnum, amazon.com
“Perhaps a man's character was like a tree, and his reputation like its shadow; the shadow is what we think of it, the tree is the real thing.”— Abraham Lincoln, rogerjnorton.com
“How are men like parking spaces? All the good ones are taken, and the ones left over are disabled.”— Unknown, tcat.tc
“How readily our thoughts swarm upon a new object, lifting it a little way, as ants carry a blade of straw so feverishly, and then leave it.”— Virginia Woolf, bartleby.com