"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.
Iraqis must fight for their own country.
I don't answer my phone in a restaurant.
Love should be all about giving and trusting.
With news breaking around the clock, it was inevitable that option trading heads this way as well.
Privatisation of electricity supply is not a panacea.
Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
The flame is not out, but it is flickering.
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
All my life in professional baseball, people said 'He could be better.'
More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.
So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad.
A good default, like Portugal or Greece, would be very good for the private equity business.
The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.
It takes a tree ten years to mature; it takes a man one hundred years to form.
