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«Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!»

Author: Davy Crockett (Explorer, Politician) | About: Fame | Keywords: greased, greases, greasing, pig, shaved, slipped

«And Summers and Winters scattered like splinters And four or five years slipped away»

Author: Jimmy Buffet | About: Life, Seasons | Keywords: scattered, slipped, slip away, splinter, splintered, splintering, splinters, summers, winters

«O lady, why are you gazing downward? Has something of yours fallen on the ground? (She replies) O fool, can you not understand the pearl of my youth has slipped away?»

Author: Chanakya (Politician, strategist, Writer) | Keywords: gazing, pearled, replies, slipped

«. . . each day mankind and the claims of mankind slipped farther from him. Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call, mysteriously thrilling and luring, he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire and the beaten earth around it, and to plunge into the forest, and on and on, he knew not where or why; nor did he wonder where or why, the call sounding imperiously, deep in the forest.»

Author: Jack London (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: beaten, claims, compelled, farther, forest, forest fire, imperiously, lured, lures, luring, mysteriously, On and On, plunge, slipped, sounding, The Call, thrilling

«BEN: You lucky, lucky bastard. BRIAN: What? BEN: Proper little jailer's pet, aren't we? BRIAN: What do you mean? BEN: You must have slipped him a few shekels, eh? BRIAN: Slipped him a few shekels? You saw him spit in my face! BEN: Ohh! What wouldn't I give to be spat at in the face! I sometimes hang awake at night dreaming of being spat at in the face. BRIAN: Well, it's not exactly friendly, is it? They had me in manacles! BEN: Manacles! Ooh oooh oh oh. My idea of heaven is to be allowed to be put in manacles... just for a few hours. They must think the sun shines out o' your arse, sonny. BRIAN: Oh, lay off me. I've had a hard time! BEN: You've had a hard time?! I've been here five years! They only hung me the right way up yesterday! So, don't you come 'rou-- BRIAN: All right. All right. BEN: They must think you're Lord God Almighty. BRIAN: What will they do to me? BEN: Oh, you'll probably get away with crucifixion. BRIAN: Crucifixion?! BEN: Yeah, first offence. BRIAN: Get away with crucifixion?! It's-- BEN: Best thing the Romans ever did for us. BRIAN: What?! BEN: Oh, yeah. If we didn't have crucifixion, this country would be in a right bloody mess. BRIAN: Guards! BEN: Nail him up, I say!»

Author: Monty Python | Keywords: all right, Almighty, arse, bastard, ben, bloody, Brian, crucifixion, crucifixions, friendly, get away, God Almighty, guards, hard time, hung, jailer, lay off, mess, nail, offence, off guard, Oh Yeah, PET, proper time, put in, Romans, shekels, shines, slipped, slip away, slip off, sonny, spat, spit, the right way, the Romans, yeah

«Three years ago I was forty... forty! Four-oh! That slipped out. Now I suddenly feel as if I've taken all my clothes off.»

Author: Bette Davis | Keywords: forty, slipped, slip off, suddenly

«Do not look where you fell but where you slipped»

Author: Proverb | About: Feelings | Keywords: fell, felled, felling, fells, slipped, slipping, slip by, slip in, slip on, slip up

«We will never forget them nor the last time we saw them this morning as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God.'»

Author: Ronald Reagan (President) | About: Goodbye, Sorrow | Keywords: bonds, slipped, surliest, surly, This Morning, waved

«If he had been as you and you as he, You would have slipped like him»

Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: slipped

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