“And the final event to himself has been, that, as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.”
On Edmund Burke's reactions to the American and French revolutions.
1790s, Letter to the Addressers (1792)
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“Stick Boy liked Match Girl,
he liked her a lot.
He liked her cute figure,
he thought she was hot.”
“He planned to stick to her like pasties on a stripper.”
Source: The Darkest Lie

[2007-04-20, Were video games to blame for massacre?, Winda Benedetti, MSNBC, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18220228/, 2014-11-18]
God and the Astronomers (1978), p. 116; (p. 107 in 1992 edition).

“He fell off the table like a crab looking for the sea.”

View of a journalist
Dhyan Chand (a biographical sketch)

“There is no liar like the one who lies to himself. He has a fool indeed for an audience.”
Source: Short fiction, Dragonfield and Other Stories (1985), The Bull & the Crowth (p. 122)