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Letter "F" » furniture
«The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.»
Author: Jacques Barzun
(Educator)
| Keywords:
bourgeois, devices, drawing, drawing room, entertainment, furniture, Grown up, instrument of torture, massive, par, par excellence, piano, The Piano, The Social
«So in Europe, we had empires. Everyone had them - France and Spain and Britain and Turkey! The Ottoman Empire, full of furniture for some reason. And the Austro-Hungarian Empire, famous for fuck all! Yes, all they did was slowly collapse like a flan in a cupboard.»
«No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.»
Author: Fran Lebowitz
(Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
dines, dine in, dining, dining room, furniture, jump, jumped-up, jump up, The Conversation, up on
«Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.»
«My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.»
Author: Pamela Anderson
(Actress, Model)
| About:
Relaxation,
Therapy
| Keywords:
buying, furniture, junk, relaxation, shops, therapy, upholstery
«No furniture is so charming as books»
«Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel's furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not.»
«The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.»
«They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
furniture, undeserving, undeserving of, unworthy of
«Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Common sense,
Science
| Keywords:
chamber, common ground, first rate, floor, furniture, ground floor, piece of furniture, piece of ground, upper, uppers
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