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• I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in Londo
  hat a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout....
• I was talking to a businessman, and I said, "Don't you think most men are little boys?
  And he said, "I'm no little boy! I make seventy-five thousand dollars a year....
• If it had been a bear it would have bit you.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue i...
• The point I have been patiently trying to make," Godwin said impatiently, "is that you expect far too much of a first sentence.
  Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfa...
• Troy: [voiceover] Earlier this year, Homer's long-lost mother returned.
  And so did a long-lost care package. [shot of Homer eating food from old care packages] Home...
• That is as well said as if I had said it myself.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue ii...
• I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue i...
• Hail fellow, well met. -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- My Lady's Lamentatio
• HEART, n. An automatic, muscular blood-pump. Figuratively
  his useful organ is said to be the esat of emotions and sentiments -- a very pretty fancy which, however, is nothing but a survival of a once universal belief....