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Familiar Quotations

Jackets

What is it about the wrong kind of man? In grade school, it was guys with earrings. College, motorcycles, leather jackets. Now, black rubber.–Batman Forever

And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time.–D. H. Lawrence

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.–D. H. Lawrence

You will wear a jacket, shirt, and tie. If you don't have one buy one, can't afford one then borrow one from your old man, if you don't have an old man, then find a drunk, trade him for his.–Remember the Titans

Jackets – "Case"

In case of doubt we should always lean on the side of mercy.–Anonymous

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.–Anonymous

In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.–Nicholson Baker

It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.–Karl Barth

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.–Albert Camus

Princes in this case do hate the traitor, though they love the treason.–Samuel Daniel

• Preface vi
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Jackets 1
• Jackets – "Case" 1
• Jackets – "Cover" 2
• Jackets – "Sheath" 2
• Use in Literature 3
• Jackets 3
• Jackets – "Armed" 12
• Jackets – "Bed" 12
• Jackets – "Black" 13
• Jackets – "Blue" 14
• Jackets – "Body" 15
• Jackets – "Buttons" 16
• Jackets – "Called" 17
• Jackets – "Cap" 17
• Jackets – "Casing" 18
• Jackets – "Chairs" 18
• Jackets – "Children" 18
• Jackets – "Cloth" 19
• Jackets – "Cover" 21
• Jackets – "Covering" 21
• Jackets – "Days" 22
• Jackets – "Dinner" 23
• Jackets – "Dress" 23
• Jackets – "Drew" 26
• Jackets – "Esther" 27
• Jackets – "Feet" 27
• Jackets – "Feeling" 28
• Jackets – "Few" 29
• Jackets – "Fingers" 29
• Jackets – "Found" 30
• Jackets – "Go" 30
• Jackets – "Gray" 31
• Jackets – "Great" 32
• Jackets – "Grey" 32
• Jackets – "Hand" 33
• Jackets – "Hat" 34
• Jackets – "Head" 36
• Jackets – "Heard" 37
• Jackets – "Helped" 37
• Jackets – "Inside" 37
• Jackets – "Keep" 38
• Jackets – "Little" 39
• Jackets – "Looked" 41
• Jackets – "Man" 43
• Jackets – "Miss" 45
• Jackets – "Mornings" 46
• Jackets – "Myself" 46
• Jackets – "Old" 47
• Jackets – "Once" 48
• Jackets – "Opened" 49
• Jackets – "Pockets" 50
• Jackets – "Poor" 52
• Jackets – "Ragged" 52
• Jackets – "Room" 52
• Jackets – "Round" 53
• Jackets – "Sailor's" 54
• Jackets – "Scarlet" 54
• Jackets – "Sheath" 55
• Jackets – "Shoe" 56
• Jackets – "Shoulders" 56
• Jackets – "Silk" 57
• Jackets – "Sat" 57
• Jackets – "Skirt" 59
• Jackets – "Sleeve" 59
• Jackets – "Think" 60
• Jackets – "Thrust" 61
• Jackets – "Trousers" 61
• Jackets – "Walking" 62
• Jackets – "Water" 63
• Jackets – "Worn" 63
• Jackets – "White" 69
• Jackets – "Young" 70
• Nonfiction Usage 72
• Script Usage 72
• Journalism Usage 72
• Legal Usage 80
• Governmental Usage 80
• Patent Usage 80
• Bibliographic Usage 88
• Encyclopedic Usage 100
• Lexicographic Usage 108
• Index 145