L. M. Boyd Quotes

• Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one.

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  Love, Sex, Food

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• No single expression denotes love. It's so complex it requires combinations of expressions. These create an identifiable look. You see something like it sometimes in the eyes of slaughterhouse steers.

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  Eye, Expression, Looks

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• It has long been believed that a man who gets bald across the front of his head is a thinker while a man who gets bald on the crown of his head is a lover. It follows, certainly, that a man who gets bald all over his head thinks he's a lover.

  L. M. Boyd

  Men, Thinking, Long

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• There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool.

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  Animal, Sharks, Pool

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• If you're more than three feet away from a housefly, it can't see you.

  L. M. Boyd

  Feet, Three, Information

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• Having a baby isn't so bad. If you're a female Emperor penguin in the Antarctic. She lays the egg, rolls it over to the father, then takes off for warmer weather where she eats and eats and eats. For two months, the father stands stiff, without food, blind in the 24-hour dark, balancing the egg on his feet. After the little penguin is hatched, the mother sees fit to come home.

  L. M. Boyd

  Mother, Baby, Father

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• First truck called a 'pick-up' was an International Harvester S in 1921.

  L. M. Boyd

  Firsts, Truck, International

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• Think today's interest rates are high? The Pilgrims borrowed $7000 from a London company of 70 investors in 1620, and devoted the next 23 years to repaying it at 43 percent.

  L. M. Boyd

  Thinking, Years, London

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• That phrase "hocus-pocus" started out as "hocus-pocus dominocus", and was, in the beginning, a mocking imitation of the holy incantations of the Catholic Church's Latin liturgy. So say the lexicologists.

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  Latin, Catholic, Church

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• Chopsticks or no chopsticks, it was the Chinese who first used knives and forks.

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  Knives, Chinese, Firsts

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• The code of Hammurabi in ancient Babylon prescribed this
  punishment for a doctor convicted of inept surgery: amputation
  of the hands.

  L. M. Boyd

  Doctors, Hands, Punishment

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