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To tell a woman who is forty, “You look like sixteen,” is baloney. The blarney way of saying it is: “Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are most beautiful.”
Fulton Sheen (1895-1979) American Catholic archbishop, preacher, televangelist
Life Is Worth Living, s.5 (1957)
Added on 6-Jul-15 | Last updated 6-Jul-15
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Topics: age, beauty, blarney, complement, con, flatter, flattery, shmooze, sweet talk, woman
More quotes by Sheen, Fulton “I don’t keer w’at you do wid me, Brer Fox,” sezee, “so you don’t fling me in dat brier-patch. Roas’ me, Brer Fox” sezee, “but don’t fling me in dat brier-patch,” sezee.
Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) American writer
Legends of the Old Plantation, “How Mr. Rabbit was too sharp for Mr. Fox” (1886)
Added on 11-Nov-08 | Last updated 3-May-17
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Topics: con, dare, fool, persuade, persuasion, reverse psychology, taunt, trick
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