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"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
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"Jesus Alou is in the on-deck circus." »Jerry Coleman
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"Kent Abbott is in the on-deck circuit." »Jerry Coleman
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"Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks." »Laura Swenson
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"When he stood up, it was a very complicated motion. If the deck chairs on the Ship to the Sea of Night had opened up, they would have done so like that. It was like he was unfolding himself forever." »Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
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"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
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"Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together." »Carl Zwanzig
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"Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together ..." »Carl Zwanzig
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"Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together..." »Carl Zwanzig
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"Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together...." »Carl Zwanzig
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"One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop." »G. Weilacher
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"One only needs two tools in life WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop." »G. Weilacher
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"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
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"No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch." »Leo Buscaglia
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"Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem." »William Shakespeare
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"Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant." »Paul Tabori, _The Natural Science of Stupidity_. (New York: ChiltonCompany, 1960), p. 104.
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"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
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