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• I Call My Horse Flattery Because He Gets Me Nowhere.
• Flattery will get you everywhere.
• Flattery is alright - if you don't inhale.
• It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.
  -- Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne...
• Flattery will get you everywhere! Keep talkin'.
• Monsters come from nowhere to hit you everywhere.
• Flattery is all right -- if you don't inhale. -- Adlai Stevenso
• You and me we're going nowhere slowly And we gotta get away from the past There's nothing wrong with going nowhere baby But we should be going nowhere fast Everybody's going nowhere slowly They're only fighting for the chance to be last There's nothing wrong with going nowhere baby But we should be going nowhere fast It's so much better going nowhere fast.
  .. -- Nowhere Fast, Meat Loaf, _Bad Attitude_...