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country easy walks
It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. Charles Dickens
country men climate
In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least. Charles Caleb Colton
country travel home
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds. Charles Caleb Colton
country sadness men
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes. Charles Caleb Colton
country heart simple
As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same. Charles Caleb Colton
country self names
The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals. Charles Caleb Colton
country mean hands
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail. Charles Dickens
country night men
If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe. Charles Dickens
country character men
Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country. Charles Dickens
grease brain use
On quantum theory I use up more brain grease (rough translation of German idiom) than on relativity. Albert Einstein
grease books-and-movies philosopher
Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease. Anthony Daniels
grease tone window
But I'm tone deaf - window-shattering tone deaf. I can't sing for the life of me. I can't sing or dance, so no remake of 'Grease' for me! Dev Patel
grease meat foam
In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure. Dan Simmons
grease machines done
Social networks are like grease - in some cases, gasoline - for our personal business networking machines. If you aren't plugged in, you will be out-done by better-connected, hyper-networked colleagues and competitors. Danah Boyd
grease people using
When most people talk about biofuels, they talk about using oils or grease from plants. Craig Venter
grease great king lead pigs populace sovereigns
ANOINT, v.t. To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.As sovereigns are anointed by the priesthood, So pigs to lead the populace are greased good. --Judibras Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
grease fantastic stage
I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success. Jeffrey Archer
grease dull floating
Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top. Italo Calvino
hamlet-and-ophelia hamlet-revenge important-hamlet
From this time forth My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth! William Shakespeare
hamlet-death hamlet-2 epitaph
After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live. William Shakespeare
hamlet-revenge fats maggots
Your worm is your only emperor for diet; we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. William Shakespeare
ham
Canadian bacon isn't bacon. It's ham. Bill Maher
ham hamsters
I got ham but I'm not a Hamster Bill Bailey
hammers force bigger
Don't force it... get a bigger hammer. Arthur Bloch
hammers ifs
If I had a hammer, there'd be no more folksingers. Billy Connolly
hamlet might ok perhaps realise
I started to realise that it wasn't for me. Perhaps I didn't have to give my Hamlet before I died, that the world might be an OK place without my Hamlet, in fact." () Eric McCormack
hamburgers
I really like hamburgers and French fries, and I don't consider myself some kind of gourmand. Eric Schlosser