Quotes of Neck - somelinesforyou

“ The king of France with twenty thousand men Went up the hill, and then came down again: The king of Spain with twenty thousand more Climbed the same hill the French had climbed before. ”

- Unknown

“ We French found it and called it joie de vivre — the joy of living. ”

- Renee Repound

“ Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French. ”

- Madeleine K. Albright

“ From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce. ”

- Thomas A. Edison

“ I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks. ”

- Steve Martin

“ My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head. ”

- Rita Rudner

“ Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. ”

- James Bryant Conant

“ If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around you own. ”

- Emerson

“ College football would be more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students - there would be a great increase in broken arms, legs and necks. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck. ”

- Eli Wallach

“ Would that the Roman people had a single neck ”

- Caligula

“ Spinnin' a rope is fun if your neck ain't in it. ”

- Will Rogers

“ A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose. ”

- Hortense Calisher

“ It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea. ”

- Bible

“ A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out. ”

- Unknown

“ By putting his hand around my neck, he slowly strangled himself. ”

- Minako Ohba

“ Curses always recoil on the head of him who imprecates them. If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead wins the race. ”

- Andrew Carnegie

“ Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, "Make me feel important." Never forget this message when working with people. ”

- Mary Kay

“ Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck. ”

- Katharine Hepburn

“ He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether. ”

- Marcus Valerius Martial

“ If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck? ”

- Linda Ellerbee

“ If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out. ”

- Arthur Koestler

“ It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic and the others give me a stiff neck or lockjaw. ”

- Tallulah Bankhead

“ Just like a turtle, we only make progress if we stick our neck out. ”

- James B. Conant

“ Living in the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way. ”

- Edna Ferber

“ Money spent on myself may be a millstone about my neck; money spent on others may give me wings like the angels. ”

- Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
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