Citation Collector Mugs

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

"These are the very weapons your mother and I used in our famous duel."

Historical memory is on life support.

'Alas, poor Yorick, I knew you well. But dude, you're creeping me out, so I gotta un-friend you!'

"Je suis Descartes, donc, je pense."

"To paraprase Nietzsche, there is no pleasure with out pain au chocolat."

Before the Internet

'It's genuine 17th century satsuma - and the pair would have been worth ?14,000.'

''Science moves but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point.' Tennyson.'

"Say hello to my little friend."

Girl to boy, 'Mom says don't play it again, Sam.'

"Various entrances to the gates of Hell."

"I got those famous last words you wanted"

'Heirloom Tiffany Lamp Delivery. I Brake for Everything.'

"Good news! She's asking for her Banana Republic and Williams-Sonoma catalogues."

His cubicle had come to be known as 'Teddy Bear Heaven'.

Man selling 'pearls of wisdom'.

Shakespeare Street

'I chose my field on what would put the most impressive initials after my name.'

Useless information desk at trivia buff convention

''Science moves but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point'. Tennyson.'

Larry's Literary Market

"I strongly encourage you Winds to 'roll with it'. I would hate to see you become part of the Gulf Stream... if you know what I mean."

'...So you claim this is genuine Rembrandt?'

'... Going once...going twice...aaaand--sold! To the gentleman in the front row for a thousand words.'

'Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine... LAST!'

'And the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short.' -- Thomas Hobbes, 'I dated a guy like that once.'

"Is this a dagger I see before me?"

'I'm a purist. I don't take anything in my Vanilla Mocha Dulce Latte.'

'Yes, your papers seem to have lots of citations, but I've checked: They're all self-citations...'