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Things are seldom what they seem, / Skim milk masquerades as cream.


William S. Gilbert

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Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream.
W. S. GILBERT Things are seldom what they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Things are seldom what they seem.
W. S. GILBERT Things are seldom what they seem.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Two percent black; that's like skim milk.
OWEN SMITH When you continuously skim the cream, that's what's going to happen,
BILL MILLER It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
AMELIA BARR There are some as are what they are. And there are some as aren't what they seem to be. And there ar...
NEIL GAIMAN Things are never as bad as they seem.
HARPER LEE Seldom has a politician left public office with more self-generated fanfare than Sen. William S. Coh...
TUCKER CARLSON Please remember: things are not what they seem.
HARUKI MURAKAMI When there?s competition, the cream rises to the top. Pennsylvania is tired of the same old sour mil...
RUSS DIAMOND You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.
JEFFREY FRY Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jacket...
BALTASAR GRACIAN Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.
JIM BUTCHER The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet esca...
GEORGE MEREDITH Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet esca...
GEORGE MEREDITH At my restaurant, we made a dessert called 'milk and honey.' It's milk ice cream that lo...
DANIEL HUMM What I've started doing more and more is eat some cereal with skim milk before I go to the big event...
ANTHONY WILLIAMS Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.
PHAEDRUS He liked those literary cooks Who skim the cream of others' books; And ruin half an author's g...
HANNAH MORE Most people seek after what they do not possess and are thus enslaved by the very things they want t...
ANWAR EL-SADAT No person is either as happy or as unhappy as they imagine. Things are never as good or as bad as th...
SOURCE UNKNOWN The next step is being able to query your refrigerator about whether you need skim or chocolate milk...
LINDA LEE Things don't always look as they seem.
JODI PICOULT I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem.
FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Appearances to save, his only care; So things seem right, no matter what they are.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH We cannot fathom technology that is unknown to us, and we seldom consider things that seem impossibl...
CHRISTOPHER DUNN I never eat anything white.. white flour, white milk, white cream, eggwhites, white sugar, white pot...
BOB CUMMINGS Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.
ROBERT H. SCHULLER People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.
CULLEN HIGHTOWER Things are often spoke and seldom meant.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom menti...
CORMAC MCCARTHY Things are no longer what they seem to be. My telephones are haunted, and animals whisper at me from...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON In India, people love turmeric. They make turmeric milk, and sometimes I mix it with some cream or y...
PRIYANKA CHOPRA Everyone is putting a brave face, but things are not what they seem and there is the normal backstab...
PETER SCHMIDT I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Things are only as good or as bad as you make them seem.
MONICA GONZALES Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes,...
GARRISON KEILLOR I am all about the complicated ice cream. Ben & Jerry's is my go-to. I like as many things i...
MATT MCGORRY Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few ...
PHAEDRUS Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942 Here is the great tr...
WILLIAM BARCLAY Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks thin...
ELBERT HUBBARD Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.
KATE SMITH I actually had someone say to me, 'Lynn, you're going to have very good days, and you're...
LYNN GOOD Ours is a world where the many are ruled by the few, illusion masquerades as truth, and crisis is th...
FRANCIS MAC DONALD In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Thing...
HUBERT HUMPHREY In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Thing...
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY It is as though we are understanding now what (William) Blake intuited, the senses were, in Eden, sp...
PETER REDGROVE As a general rule, people in this country don't know much about dairy cows. My job is to teach them ...
MIKE REEVES Look! Don't be deceived by appearances -- men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on ...
WILLIAM BOOTH Names are not always what they seem.
MARK TWAIN ..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unn...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS There's no such thing as soy milk. It's soy juice.
LEWIS BLACK Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he ha...
ELSPETH HUXLEY Reasons... questions... what they have in common?

- All get finded in the hard way.
DEYTH BANGER As an investor, what you really want to look for is things that are pushing boundaries: things that ...
CHAD ANDERSON If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way
PATRICK ROTHFUSS A boxer's diet should be low in fat and high in proteins and sugar. Therefore you should eat ple...
GENE TUNNEY Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not ...
WILLIAM BOOTH Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills o...
SIR HUGH WALPOLE Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills o...
HORACE WALPOLE Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills ...
HORACE WALPOLE It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your coff...
ZORA NEALE HURSTON People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
BOB DYLAN People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
BOB DYLAN It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to ...
HUGH MACKAY Breast milk is big business." My mother uses my sarcasm as a springboard for her insanity. "We shoul...
ADDISON MOORE We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Human milk has 100,000 different components and we only really know what a few thousand of them are ...
ELENA MEDO I've been using the same thing I've used since I was a teenager, which is Cetaphil. I love C...
BIANCA LAWSON There are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't...
BOBBY FISCHER They invest in CDs and things are great for a while. But what winds up happening is that milk and bu...
DAVID I. LAMPE In other news, a recent report suggests that things may not be as they seem.
JOSEPH FINK I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before b...
KEN BURNS The times are not so bad as they seem; they couldn't be
JAY FRANKLIN Winning is the cure all. Sometimes when you're losing things aren't as bad as they seem. Sometimes w...
JALEN ROSE There is something about Prince William and Prince Harry that brings real modernity to the British r...
MARIO TESTINO When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN No need to feel shame for what you are.
DEYTH BANGER you know what the best kind of organic certification would be? make an unannounced visit to a farm a...
MICHAEL POLLAN Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ev...
VOLTAIRE There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
YEHUDA AMICHAI For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and a...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.
JAMES JOYCE Do you think there's such a thing as a ghost who masquerades as a person? Do you believe that there ...
ANN-MARIE MACDONALD We start out with basic things like 'milk,' 'more,' 'please' and 'eat' - things that are important t...
MICHELLE ALLEN When ignorance masquerades itself as intelligence, there's not much one can do but sit back and watc...
FATHOM After 1957 On The Road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent c...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The things of substance are the things that we need to focus on, but they are the things that seem t...
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
ANDRé GIDE Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bul...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Cops aren't really your friends, they are trying to be your friends but they are not....

DEYTH BANGER I eat many different ice creams. I'm not an ice cream snob, although I do think Ben & Jerry&...
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rise...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS If you rap your knuckles against a window jamb or door, if you brush your leg against a bed or desk,...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Truth is used to vitalize a statement rather than devitalize it. Truth implies more than a simple st...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS While we are not and cannot become the world's policeman, neither can we become a prisoner of world ...
WILLIAM S. COHEN The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of th...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Kindness, Courtesy, Courage, and a Commitment to Academic Excellence" "But if everything goes wrong,...
WILLIAM S. HUNTER In fact, they recapitulate the story of Christianity word for word, like the inevitable course of so...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very u...
WILLIAM S. COHEN When I say madness I mean what I see in a nut house: beat, resigned, dim, diffuse, nowhere people. N...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I'm running out of everything now. Out of veins, out of money.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different an...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS This memorial is more than a remembrance, it's also a reminder that women in the military's service ...
WILLIAM S. COHEN Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties ...
WILLIAM S. COHEN We will not win the war on terror through military action. The sharing of information and intelligen...
WILLIAM S. COHEN (1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch th...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Never give succor to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS It is doubtful if shame can exist in the absence of sexual libido.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way with...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS When I become death, death is the seed from which I grow.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS My experience as an addict was very useful to me as writer: the whole syndrome of addiction and with...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a d...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The question is frequently asked: Why does a man become a drug addict?
The answer is that he us...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The threat of terrorism taking place on American soil is real, with chemical, biological, indeed, as...
WILLIAM S. COHEN The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS A Nazi initiation into the upper reaches of the SS was to gouge out the eye of a pet cat after feedi...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want...
WILLIAM S. WILSON When you stop growing you start dying.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS To put it country simple. Earth has a lot of things other folks might want, like the whole planet. A...
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