Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I once had a boyfriend who couldn't write unless he was wearing a necktie and a dress shirt, which I thought was… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
I got a burlap sack, put a brick in the middle, and filled it with rags, corncobs, some Spanish moss, and sand.… — Joe Frazier Copy Share Image
There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Like a necktie or a bouquet of flowers, an idea was best if one did not fuss with it too much — Galen Beckett Copy Share Image
Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We did make use, from time to time, of candles, neckties, scarves, shoelaces, a little water-color paintbrush, her hairbrush, butter, whipped cream,… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
There is something about you that makes me feel terribly wicked. You make me want to do shocking things. Maybe it's because… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Marriage is part of a sort of 50′s revival package that's back in vogue along with neckties and naked ambition. — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Try to imagine a man setting out for the day without a single prejudice. ... Inevitably he would be in a state… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
According to one account of the New York City schools during the 1950s: The teacher could not technically hit the child, but… — Robert Klein Copy Share Image
I was the little guy who knew how to tie a necktie. It came from having absentee parents. They were tremendously loving… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
Baseball is a lot like the ivy-covered wall of Wrigley Field--it gives off a great appearance, but when you run into it,… — Hank Aaron Copy Share Image
Revolution? Unscrew the flag-staff, wrap the bunting in the oil covers, and put the thing in the clothes-chest. Let the old lady… — Alfred Doblin Copy Share Image
No matter how I'm doing financially, the Depression has never disappeared from my consciousness. To this day, I hate waste. When neckties… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
There's one post-Christmas chore I love-writing thank-you letters.... Lots of companies for many reasonable reasons, I guess, have a policy against sending… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
