| "One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider." »Damon Runyon |
| "Kent Abbott is in the on-deck circuit." »Jerry Coleman |
| "Jesus Alou is in the on-deck circus." »Jerry Coleman |
| "Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere!" »Worry |
| "Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks." »Laura Swenson |
| "You can't deny laughter when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants." »Stephen King |
| "Reading transports me. I can go anywhere and never leave my chair. It lets me shake hands with new ideas." »Rolfe Neill |
| "If the captain invited me to his party, after he had whipped me earlier in the day, up on deck, I guess I'd go, but I'd try to find some excuse to leave early." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair." »Arnold J. Toynbee |
| "There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed-the four-poster-I'll be needing that to die in." »Helen Hayes |
| "To Robert Fulton What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense." »Napoleon I |
| "Never let a little man to sit on a big chair; that would be a big disaster!" »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest uponWhat would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwellAbsence makes the heart grow fonder,Isle of Beauty, fare thee well" »John Milton |
| "Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan." »Eliel Saarinen |
| "We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of Gods existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith." »Real Live Preacher |
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