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«You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.»
«To explain responsibility to advertising men is like trying to convince an eight-year-old that sexual intercourse is more fun than a chocolate ice cream cone.»
«Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.»
«A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.»
«PUBLISH, n. In literary affairs, to become the fundamental element in a cone of critics.»
«My apple trees will never get across / And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. / He only says, `Good fences make good neighbours'.»
«Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.»