There is never good reason to inhale chicken, and so there is no purpose in asking you why you have inhaled chicken.

To treat of the effects of Love to you, must be as absurd as to discourse on colours to a man born blind; since possibly your idea of love may be as absurd as that which we are told such blind man once entertained of the colour red; that colour seemed to him to be very much like the sound of a trumpet; and Love probably may, in your opinion, very greatly resemble a dish of soup, or a sirloin of roast-beef.

When you grasp the meaning of the word “dog”, for example, you know that you ought to use that word to refer to dogs, and not cats.

I think most decent people would be willing to go to some trouble to avoid taking pictures of salmon if British people might hear about it.

Importantly, over time, rats become highly motivated to obtain this diet – so motivated they’ll voluntarily endure extreme cold temperatures and electric shocks to obtain it, even when regular bland rodent pellets are freely available (11, 12).

He then bespattered the youth with abundance of that language which passes between country gentlemen who embrace opposite sides of the question; with frequent applications to him to salute that part which is generally introduced into all controversies that arise among the lower orders of the English gentry at horse-races, cock-matches, and other public places. Allusions to this part are likewise often made for the sake of the jest. And here, I believe, the wit is generally misunderstood. In reality, it lies in desiring another to kiss your a– for having just before threatened to kick his; for I have observed very accurately, that no one ever desires you to kick that which belongs to himself, nor offers to kiss this part in another.

These combined with the honesty he felt compelled by philosophy to embrace, and with an alarming absence of shame, which meant that Jerry would speak with equal warmth about sex, the state of his bowels, or his imagination.

Artists, like professors in the University of Chicago, claim to believe that a beautiful body is the physical representation of a beautiful soul.

In the bar, they hatched a plan to make their festival entrance by riding their horses onto the stage.  It was the kind of decision that a large intake of wine mixed with the leadership style of Bob Johnston and the bravado the European tour had engendered might produce.

Its identity is never explained, but Olaf (for one) is terrified of what it would do to his Octopoid submarine.