Strauss Admirer Gifts

Die Fledermaus

The Stat-shoe of Liberty.

If you give a mouse a french cookie

'Shh, wait! -- I'm getting an astral message from Sigmund Freud!'

A Bat walking a tightrope upside down.

If you give a mouse a French cookie: "And suddenly the memory returns. The taste was that of the little crumb of madeleine which on Sunday mornings at..."

James Joyce

"I did not ram Preston Sturges down their throats."

The British Hamlet. He says: 'Alas poor Yorick, I knew him ... well, I say knew, more of an acquaintance really. Only met the chap three or four times.'

Johannes Brahms

Lady Liberty: Give me your sick.

'To be built on this site - an exact duplicate of the building that was just turn down (we liked the international style after all).

The tree of liberty can survive only so much grafting.

Forrest Gander

Virginia Woolf

"To the lady in the harbor."

You've got to admire his spunk.

"Darling, a rather uncomfortable distance has developed between me and the furniture."

Mid century modern. Midwest boring

'Touching.'

Angela Merkel

Tom and Nancy Seaver

"Honestly larry, I don't want a bronze Adonis. I much prefer a burnt umber twiglet"

Clock

The Tetterbys

Richard I of England

Genghis Khan

"I'm awarding a million bucks for any school, park or high-IQ child named after me."

The Year of the Strategist

Mr Chuckster Old Curiosity Shop

"You'd think muses would get book credit mentions."

'She's a great writer, really lifts words off the page.'

"Look alive, Proust, you're next."

Napoleon Bonaparte

Comedians: Before and after political corectness.