Mahogany Quotes:

The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.

- J. G. Holland

source: J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.55

topic: Men, Gentleman, Veneer, Mahogany

Success is nothing without someone you love to share it with.

- Billy Dee Williams

topic: Someone You Love, One You Love, Share, Mahogany

Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?

- Jim Bakker

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Apology, World, Crystals, Chandeliers, I Apologize

I like to have a spray bottle filled with apple juice to spray onto my meat. Whether it's pork, chicken, or beef, it adds flavor. Also, it helps keep your meat a real golden mahogany-looking color and prevents it from turning black.

- Johnny Trigg

topic: Real, Color, Apples, Mahogany

But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and glue, such perishable things for ideas have lasted thousands of years . . . I hope I am always walled in by the very weight and breadth and clumsy, inefficient, antiquated bulk of them, hope that I spend my last days on this Earth arranging and rearranging them on thrones of good, honest pine, oak, and mahogany, because I just like to look at their covers, and dream of the promise of the great stories inside.

- Rick Bragg

topic: Dream, Book, Years, Rearranging, Mahogany

Men are easy,' he said, fingers tapping on his mahogany desk. 'A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand...well, God put a lot of thought into making you.

- Khaled Hosseini

topic: Men, Simple, Hands, Plumbing, Mahogany

My verse has brought me no roubles to spare: no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house.

- Vladimir Mayakovsky

topic: Poetry, House, Made, Mahogany

What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez, the image of a bay horse in a vacant lot on the corner of Sarrano and Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?

- Jorge Luis Borges

topic: Horse, Voice, Bars, Sulfur, Mahogany

Food Throwers: Begun usually by estranged couples, once this victual flinging starts, everyone will do it...Should your dinner party have become an out of control concussion match with opponents catapulting croutons and petits pois across the mahogany, don't fight it, go with it. And when you have the desire to quell the uprising approach the original perpetrator from behind. There, slowly crown her with the contents of the fresh fruit salad bowl. But be warned. Although this immobilizes and rivits everyone's attention it also gives them new ideas.

- J. P. Donleavy

topic: Couple, Party, Fighting, Perpetrators, Throwers

Well,” Waxillium said. “Perhaps I should begin by asking after your health.” “Perhaps you should,” Steris replied. “Er. Yes. How’s your health?” “Suitable.” “So is Waxillium,” Wayne added. They all turned to him. “You know,” he said. “He’s wearing a suit, and all. Suitable. Ahem. Is that mahogany?

- Brandon Sanderson

source: Brandon Sanderson (2018). “Mistborn: The Wax and Wayne Series: (Alloy of Law, Shadows of Self, The Bands of Mourning)”, p.43, Tor Books

topic: Asking, Suits, Wayne, Suitable, Wearing A Suit

The firelight magnified our shadows, glinted off the silver, flickered high upon the walls; its reflection roared orange in the windowpanes as if a city were burning outside. The whoosh of the flames was like a flock of birds, trapped and beating in a whirlwind near the ceiling. And I wouldn't have been at all surprised if the long mahogany banquet table, draped in linen, laden with china and candles and fruit and flowers, had simply vanished into thin air, like a magic casket in a fairy story.

- Donna Tartt

topic: Wall, Flower, Reflection, Windowpane, Caskets

President Lyndon Johnson's high spirits were marked as he circulated among the many guests whom he had invited to witness an event he confidently felt to be historic, the signing of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.... The bill that lay on the polished mahogany desk was born in violence in Selma, Alabama, where a stubborn sheriff... had stumbled against the future.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Rights, Voting, President, Sheriffs, Signing

I don't quite recollect how many tumblers of whiskey toddy each man drank after supper; but this I know, that about one o'clock in the morning, the baillie's grown-up son became insensible while attempting the first verse of 'Willie brewed a peck o' maut'; and he having been, for half an hour before, the only other man visible above the mahogany, it occurred to my uncle that it was almost time to think about going.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (2016). “The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.554, Pan Macmillan

topic: Funny, Morning, Uncles, Mahogany