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«Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!»
Author: Davy Crockett
(Explorer, Politician)
| About:
Fame
| Keywords:
greased, greases, greasing, pig, shaved, slipped
«A good lather is half the shave»
«Every time I go and shave, I assume there's someone else on the planet shaving. So I say, 'I'm gonna go shave, too.'»
Author: Mitch Hedberg
(Comedian)
| About:
Comedy,
silly
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I go, shave, shaved, shaves, shaving, Somebody else
«I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon.»
«A barber does not shave himself»
«And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? hath not David rather sent his servants unto thee, to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it? / Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.»
«But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee for to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land? / Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them away.»
«After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
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desk, occurs, shaved, shaves, shaving, talking to, The Quiet, typewriter, vitally, writing desk
«Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs»
Author: Henry Ford
| About:
Business,
Competition
| Keywords:
competition, costs, cutting, cutting edge, cut away, edge, Edge of, keen, keenest, shaved, shaves, shaving
«An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write ''metropolis'' for seven cents, because I can get the same money for ''city'.' I never write ''policeman',' because I can get the same price for ''cop'.'... I never write ''valetudinarian'' at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
Because I Can, cents, dug, fifteen, four letter word, metropolis, policeman, shaved, the metropolis, to the point, valetudinarian
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