
“When you have a full bouquet you can't sit back and smell each flower.”
Artist Pages.
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
“When you have a full bouquet you can't sit back and smell each flower.”
Artist Pages.
“Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.”
“Something you have to know about the US military is that it sucks at commando raids.”
Gary Brecher at exile.ru/authors, 2002
Source: No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies 1999, Chapter One, "No Space"
“A good general rule is to state that the bouquet is better than the taste, and vice versa.”
One-Upmanship (1952) ch. 14
On wine-tasting.
“Please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: (((”
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), Seymour: An Introduction (1959)
“Bombardment, air raid and blockade”
Must We Go to War? (1937)
Context: Bombardment, air raid and blockade constitute the most revolting forms of atrocity because they are not deeds of violence committed under the momentary, blinding influence of fear or passion, but are deliberately premeditated processes of devastation, mutilation and slaughter of men, women and children without regard to guilt or responsibility.
“Day before yesterday I saw a rabbit, and yesterday a deer, and today, you.”
Source: The Dandelion Girl