"Age before beauty," said the devil as he threw his grandmother off' the stairs.
"Ahu" are stone platforms on which many moai sit. There are 313 known ahu and 125 of these carry moai. The biggest, Ahu Tongariki is 220 m (720 ft), and had the most (15) and tallest moai.
"All freight lightens," said the skipper, when he threw his wife overboard.
"All science is either physics or stamp collecting."
"Almost a hit," said the boy as he threw the stone at his dog and hit his stepmother's leg.
"Almost" and "About" prevent lying.
"Almost" never killed a fly.
"An egg is an egg," said the beadle, but he took the goose-egg.
"Android" is gender specific.
"Ascension Thursday" is 40 days after Easter and is when Christ was said to have ascended to heaven.
"Away with you, be a peddlar, a knave," says the hangman to his man.
"Bad company," said the thief, as he went to the gallows between the hangman and a monk.
"But" is a fence over which few leap.
"Come and I'll tell you something," tickles the ear.
"Come see me" and "Come live with me" are two different things.
Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
It is cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present.
There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen.
I wish one time in my life I could do what other writers do... Get me a villa in Spain and go there to write a book.
America, the temple of invention and industry, doesn't make things anymore.
What victim will now want to come forward, and at what cost?
Because of the marshy underlying subsoil there are several other towers in Pisa with less prominent tilting issues.
I always try to make each character my own.
We have to have the assumption that bad actors will try to do bad things within the market.
The sky is no longer the limit.
And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.
In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty.
Obviously, I don't mind if James looks at women. He's a man, women are hot.
The twentieth century may well find historical status as the epoch in which man began to study himself as a scientific phenomenon.
I am never more or less motivated for a fight - it's always the same.