Morrie Ryskind quotes

“Ever since I've met you, I've swept you off my feet.”
-- Morrie Ryskind

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“The elks live up in the hills and in the spring they come down for their annual convention. It is very interesting to watch them come down to the water hole. And you should see them run when they find that it's only a water hole. What they're looking for is elk-ohole.”
-- Morrie Ryskind

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“On this site we're going to build an Eye and Ear Hospital. This is going to be a sight for sore eyes.”
-- Morrie Ryskind

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“Money will never make you happy and happy will never make you money. That may be a wise crack, but I doubt it.”
-- Morrie Ryskind

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“The elks, on the other hand live up in the hills, and in the spring they come down for their annual convention. It is very interesting to watch them come to the water hole. And you should see them run when they find it is only a water hole. What they're looking for is an 'elk-a-hole'.”
-- Morrie Ryskind

Source : "Fictional character: Captain Spaulding". "Animal Crackers", 1930.

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“He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back”

“The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.”

“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”

“Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation

“I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.”

“I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before Mad Men.”

“I started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing!”

“Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.”

“The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.”

“You walk into my bedroom at night, it looks like a nightclub. There's all kinds of lighting effects, there's all kinds of music. I want them to feel like they're in for a show. I believe in romance.”