“ There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience. ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
“ Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism. ”
- V. S. Pritchett- Copy
“ A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. ”
- Charles Brower- Copy
“ Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn. ”
- Lewis Grizzard- Copy
“ No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
“ WORMS'-MEAT, n. The finished product of which we are the raw material. The contents of the Taj Mahal, the Tombeau Napoleon and the Granitarium. Worms'-meat is usually outlasted by the structure that houses it, but "this too must pass away." Probably the silliest work in which a human being can engage is construction of a tomb for himself… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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