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Familiar Quotations

Pregnancies

Think of stretch marks as pregnancy service stripes.–Joyce Armor

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.–Isaac Asimov

Having a little inflation is like being a little pregnant.–Leon Henderson

If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.–Florynce R. Kennedy

A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows.–C. S. Lewis

Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant.–Art Linkletter

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry.–Henry Mencken

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.–Henry Miller

The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.–Ezra Pound

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.–John Sculley

• Preface v
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Pregnancies 1
• Pregnancies – "Full" 1
• Pregnancies – "Meaningful" 3
• Pregnancies – "Significant" 3
• Use in Literature 4
• Pregnancies 4
• Pregnancies – "Abortion" 15
• Pregnancies – "Being" 16
• Pregnancies – "Cases" 17
• Pregnancies – "Child" 20
• Pregnancies – "Conditions" 22
• Pregnancies – "Daughter" 22
• Pregnancies – "Day" 23
• Pregnancies – "Double" 23
• Pregnancies – "Earlier" 24
• Pregnancies – "Followed" 24
• Pregnancies – "Found" 25
• Pregnancies – "Full" 25
• Pregnancies – "Great" 26
• Pregnancies – "Life" 27
• Pregnancies – "Little" 28
• Pregnancies – "Man" 28
• Pregnancies – "Married" 29
• Pregnancies – "Meaning" 30
• Pregnancies – "Month" 30
• Pregnancies – "Mother" 33
• Pregnancies – "Night" 34
• Pregnancies – "Old" 34
• Pregnancies – "Possibilities" 35
• Pregnancies – "Reports" 36
• Pregnancies – "Result" 36
• Pregnancies – "Second" 37
• Pregnancies – "Serious" 37
• Pregnancies – "Significant" 38
• Pregnancies – "Signs" 39
• Pregnancies – "Silence" 40
• Pregnancies – "Sixth" 40
• Pregnancies – "States" 41
• Pregnancies – "Things" 42
• Pregnancies – "Woman" 42
• Pregnancies – "Words" 47
• Nonfiction Usage 50
• Presidential Usage 50
• Journalism Usage 50
• Legal Usage 64
• Governmental Usage 64
• Patent Usage 65
• Bibliographic Usage 66
• Encyclopedic Usage 341
• Lexicographic Usage 357
• Index 409