The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able... to take the damn thing off.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice an...d thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How coyote got his ratty old fur coat... bits of old fur the sparrows stuck on him with dabs of pitch. That was after he lost his proud original one in a poker game.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, tha...n one spoonful of water thrown upon a rat already drowned would contribute to his death; and that the present plentiful harvest, although it should be followed by a dozen ensuing, would no more restore us, than it would the rat aforesaid to put him near the fire, which might indeed warm his fur-coat, but never bring him back to life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Miss Caswell: Now there's something a girl could make sacrifices for. Bill: And probably has.... Miss Caswell: Sable. Max: Sable? Did she say sable or Gable? Miss Caswell: Either one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fur Protester: Do you know how many poor animals they had to kill to make that coat? Margo: Do you know how many rich animals... I had to fuck to get this coat?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a coat of fur And a porpentine cat... And a wopsical hat: How unpleasant to meet Mr. Eliot! (Whether his mouth be open or shut).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Your coat in my closet, your bright stones on my hand,... the gaudy fur animals I do not know how to use, settle on me like a debt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »