“When you have a full bouquet you can't sit back and smell each flower.”
Avner Strauss (1954) Israeli musician
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.”
Avner Strauss (1954) Israeli musician
Artist Pages.
“Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.”
Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian
“Something you have to know about the US military is that it sucks at commando raids.”
John Dolan (1955) American journalist
Gary Brecher at exile.ru/authors, 2002
Naomi Klein (1970) Canadian author and activist
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.”
Stephen Potter (1900–1969) British writer
One-Upmanship (1952) ch. 14
On wine-tasting.
“Please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: (((”
Jerome David Salinger book Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), Seymour: An Introduction (1959)
“Bombardment, air raid and blockade”
Kirby Page (1890–1957) American clergyman
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.”
Robert F. Young book The Dandelion Girl
Source: The Dandelion Girl