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Familiar Quotations

Groom

Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?–Robert Cook

In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.–Groucho Marx

Groom – "Arrangement"

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.–Virginia Woolf

Groom – "Dress"

I am in a dress, I have gel in my hair, I haven't slept all night, I am starved and I'm armed. Don't mess with me!–Miss Congeniality

I dress for women and I undress for men.–Angie Dickenson

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.–Edward Halifax

If you put a silk dress on a goat he is a goat still.–Irish Proverb

How to dress? When the money is going from you wear anything you like. When the money is coming to you, dress your best.–Proverb

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.–Francoise Sagan

All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.–Lin Yu-tang

• Preface v
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Groom 1
• Groom – "Arrangement" 1
• Groom – "Dress" 1
• Groom – "Prepare" 1
• Groom – "Trains" 2
• Use in Literature 3
• Groom 3
• Groom – "Animal" 12
• Groom – "Appearance" 13
• Groom – "Being" 14
• Groom – "Call" 14
• Groom – "Care" 15
• Groom – "Cleaning" 15
• Groom – "Evening" 16
• Groom – "Followed" 16
• Groom – "Forward" 17
• Groom – "Found" 18
• Groom – "Hand" 18
• Groom – "Head" 19
• Groom – "Home" 20
• Groom – "Horse" 21
• Groom – "House" 26
• Groom – "Kept" 27
• Groom – "King" 28
• Groom – "Lady's" 28
• Groom – "Leading" 29
• Groom – "Little" 30
• Groom – "Looked" 31
• Groom – "Lord" 32
• Groom – "Man" 33
• Groom – "Master's" 35
• Groom – "Morning" 36
• Groom – "Near" 37
• Groom – "Night" 38
• Groom – "Old" 38
• Groom – "Place" 39
• Groom – "Prepare" 40
• Groom – "Ride" 41
• Groom – "Room" 42
• Groom – "Saddle" 42
• Groom – "Sent" 43
• Groom – "Servant" 44
• Groom – "Soon" 44
• Groom – "Stable" 45
• Groom – "Stand" 46
• Groom – "Waited" 47
• Groom – "Young" 48
• Nonfiction Usage 50
• Script Usage 50
• Journalism Usage 50
• Legal Usage 64
• Governmental Usage 64
• Patent Usage 64
• Bibliographic Usage 74
• Encyclopedic Usage 148
• Lexicographic Usage 155
• Index 173