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My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It's the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. You'll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond 'Z' and start poking around!
View quotes by Theodor Geisel
Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in courtesy, as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon - the pardon is granted, but the joint aches, especially if there is a corn upon it.
View quotes by Lord Byron
The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.
View quotes by Charles Lamb
You know what a fan letter is - it's just an inky raspberry
View quotes by Bob Hope
I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for (letter to her husband)
View quotes by Jane Carlyle
I perceive that that man [Cranmer] hath the right sow by the ear. [Letter, 1529]
View quotes by Henry VIII
The reason they call it 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up.
View quotes by Leslie Nielsen
Ducking for apples - change one letter and it's the story of my life.
View quotes by Dorothy Parker
That indefatigable and unsavoury engine of pollution, the dog (letter to The Times)
View quotes by John Sparrow
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
View quotes by Aristotle
I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal. (Letter to Duncan Grant)
View quotes by John Maynard Keynes
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
View quotes by Alvin Toffler
Not only do they know nothing about football, but if you were to shut them up in a room by themselves, they couldn't even write a letter to mother [on sports journalists]
View quotes by Cesar Menotti
Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man has as good be engaged in law suits as have to do with her (letter to Edmund Halley)
View quotes by Sir Isaac Newton
Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one's peers.
View quotes by David Lodge
Plain truth will influence half a score of men at most in a nation, or an age, while mystery will lead millions by the nose. [Letter, 1721]
View quotes by Viscount Henry St John Bolingbroke
It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.
View quotes by Pope Gregory VII
No doubt I'll get a letter from the FA, asking me to explain my comments. Maybe I'll show them a video of the game and say, 'There are my comments, you tell me about it'
View quotes by Paul Jewell
Every person who is offered a knighthood has the opportunity to say yes or no. You get a letter from the Prime Minister saying you've been recommended for a knighthood and there are two little boxes, one says yes, one says no.
View quotes by Derek Jacobi
When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.
View quotes by Edith Wharton
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