27 ordspråk av Calvin Trillin
Calvin Trillin
 As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler. |
| As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler. |
| Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth. |
| Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth. |
| Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense. |
| Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense. |
| Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away. |
| Health food makes me sick. |
| I don't mind being compared to Tolstoy literarily, but when it comes to Fun Stats it's a little humiliating. |
| I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally. |
| I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still. |
| In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses |
| It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of the food offered in American clubs varies in direct proportion to the exclusiveness of the club. |
| It isn't like when John died, when there were a lot of people there. I think this time she wanted to do it more by herself. Somebody told me there's an African blessing, 'May we be buried by our children.' It's obviously the hardest loss. |
| Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist. |
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