An example from the monkey: The higher it climbs, the more you see of its behind.

Saint Bonaventure · Conferences on the Gospel of John

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If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned.

William Shakespeare · The source reads: “If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned: if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh’s lean kine are to be loved.” · King Henry IV, Part I, II, iv

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

Thornton Wilder · The Matchmaker (1954), act I

Although rabbits are not by themselves nourishing, they are a pretty good mitigation of vegetarianism.

Winston Churchill · To Minister of Agriculture, 14 June 1941 (The Second World War, vol. I, The Gathering Storm (1948))

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“An example from the monkey: The higher it climbs, the more you see of its behind.”

“If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned.”

“Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.”

“Although rabbits are not by themselves nourishing, they are a pretty good mitigation of vegetarianism.”

We Value Your Opinion Comments

An example from the monkey: The higher it climbs, the more you see of its behind.

If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned.

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

Although rabbits are not by themselves nourishing, they are a pretty good mitigation of vegetarianism.