"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.
Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there.
I think that ship has sailed.
The name for a collective group of rhinoceroses is called a crash.
I wasn't good enough to be a professional soccer player obviously but that was my first goal in life.
If you have an express delivery system and a reliable payment system, you can do a lot of trade that was not possible before.
But most of my songs were about believing in yourself, standing up for yourself and fighting for what you believe in.
One of the glories of New York is its ethnic food, and only McDonald's and Burger King equalize us all.
Oregonians continually demonstrate a strong belief in fairness and equal treatment under the law.
Between two cowards, the first to detect the other has the advantage.
If we don't know how to be alone, we'll only know how to be lonely.
We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.
I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a part of this country.
Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.
Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.
Competition in politics is just as important as competition in everything else.
