Word Collector Gifts

Man packing suitcase with French vocabulary

Things you say when you are officially old...

"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."

"Would you like to keep eighty-seven tabs open?"

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

"Say hello to my little friend."

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

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

Alphabet soup gets cold for slow readers.

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

Shakespeare. Hamlet. Romeo and Juliet. "To be or not to be, that is the question". "We are such stuff …As dreams are made of …" "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would small as sweet." That Shakespeare guy had some neat sound bites.

"I got those famous last words you wanted"

Ask not for whom happy hour ends. It ends for thee.

Man selling 'pearls of wisdom'.

Buy one beer, get one free. If I may paraphrase a famous quote, "Beer is proof that God has mixed feelings about us and wants us to be hungover."

Shakespeare Street

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

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

"We owe our success to teamwork. Without it we could never have grasped at so many straws."

Larry's Literary Market

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

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

"Is this a dagger I see before me?"

Coffee. The phrase "where everybody knows your name" used to sound warm and friendly. Now, with all our personal information exposed online, it sounds scary!

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

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

"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."

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

'I'm very worried that if we fail to introduce rigid protocols to maximise client gratification indices within acceptable costbenefit parameters to ensure enhanced margins...then we'll have missed the whole point of what Christmas is about!!!'

'You can't win - a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but ignorance is no excuse!'