"So familiar are eggs to us, however, that in the eighteenth century they were referred to as cackling farts, on the basis that chickens cackled all the time and eggs came out of the back of them."

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Source : Mark Forsyth (2012). “The Horologicon”, p.36, Icon Books

Mark Forsyth

#Eggs Quotes #Fart Quotes #Century Quotes

“A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art.”

Source : "The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll". Book by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood (p. 146), 1898.
“I believe that without Watergate we would have had an extraordinary period of success with a strong Nixon and a still vital Brezhnev in power.”
“You take that walk from the dressing room to the ring and that's when the real man comes out. Then you climb up those four stairs and into the ring. Then finally, you can't wait for the bell to ring.”
“Listening is a lamp that dispels the darkness of ignorance.”
“At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.”
“Suffering is everywhere. Don't ever think it isn't. So are miracles. Don't ever think they aren't.”
“Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.”

Source : "Top 10 Commencement Speeches". content.time.com.
“It was odd to have something so personal out there in that way, but the good thing about art is that no one necessarily knows what you mean by it anyway.”

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