"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.
They trade that modest loss of savings in favor of administrative streamlining and simplicity.
'She's Country' obviously changed a lot of things for us and pretty much, I think, doubled our crowd size in just a few months time.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.
I don't question that dr. Ford was sexually assaulted at some time and at some place, but it was not me.
A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?
When they came back at 2 a.m., both of them were down, it was apparent that life-saving measures would not be needed.
If an employer decides to flout the law, it may be guilty of criminal offences and subject to serious financial liability.
I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion.
You should not take it as an insult, you should take it as a wonderful event in your life.
The way we like to think of ourselves is not the way we look. We like to think of ourselves as more evolved than we frequently are.
What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace.
The abuse of detainees in U.S. Custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the world.
When I blew my back out at age 42, I said, 'Okay, I've got to be more concerned about food and health.'
What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.
