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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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"And though hard be the task, 'Keep a stiff upper lip'." »Phoebe Cary
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"Kent Abbott is in the on-deck circuit." »Jerry Coleman
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"Jesus Alou is in the on-deck circus." »Jerry Coleman
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"When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats." »Claude Swanson
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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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"If you are an author and give one of your books to a member of the upper class, you must never expect him to read it." »Paul Fussell
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"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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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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"It is easy to go down into Hell night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task." »Virgil
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"Defining consultancy is a bit like defining the upper class every possible candidate draws the line just below himself." »John Peet
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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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"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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"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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"There are three social classes in America upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class." »Judith Martin
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"There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class." »Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
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