“It'll make your jaw drop.”
On the first NeXT Computer, as quoted in The New York Times (8 November 1989)
1980s
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“Your lean jaws grin with. Lash
Your itch and quailing, nude greed of the flesh.”
James Joyce book Pomes Penyeach
A Memory Of The Players In A Mirror At Midnight, p. 19
Pomes Penyeach (1927)
Richard Carlson (1961–2006) Author, psychotherapist and motivational speaker
Source: Don't Worry, Make Money: Spiritual and Practical Ways to Create Abundance and More Fun in Your Life
“To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Remarks at a White House luncheon (26 June 1954) <br class="br">Quoted in Churchill Urges Patience in Coping with Red Dangers, The New York Times, June 27, 1954 http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00A10FE3458117A93C5AB178DD85F408585F9, <br class="br">Has been falsely attributed to Otto von Bismarck. <br class="br">But Churchill’s official biographer, Sir Martin Gilbert, speaking of this quote, noted that Churchill actually said, "Meeting jaw to jaw is better than war." Four years later, during a visit to Australia, Harold Macmillan said the words usually—and wrongly—attributed to Churchill: “Jaw, jaw is better than war, war.” Credit: Harold Macmillan. <br class="br">Post-war years (1945–1955) <br class="br">Source: https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/quotes/quotes-falsely-attributed/
“Don't use such strong words. It'll only make you look weak.”
Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist
Source: Bleach, Volume 01
Robert Jordan The Fires of Heaven
Birgitte Silverbow
Variant: If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.
Source: The Fires of Heaven (15 October 1993)
“If anyone makes trouble I've advised him to dot him one on the jaw in the best British style.”
John Buchan book The House of the Four Winds
Source: The House of the Four Winds (1935), Ch. III
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) French writer
Second Week, First Day, Part iv. Compare: "Out of the jaws of death", William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act iii. Sc. 4.
La Seconde Semaine (1584)
Linda McQuaig (1951) journalist and author
All You Can Eat: Greed, Lust and the New Capitalism (2001)
Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451
19 September 1777
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791)
Source: Fahrenheit 451