A Quote by Wislawa Szymborska

I'm working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.

Wislawa Szymborska

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Bald Blues Combs Dogs Edition Fools Fun Improved Old Old Dog Tricks Working World

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Wislawa Szymborska
Polish - Poet
July 2, 1923 - February 1, 2012

The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people.

Daniel Pinkwater

Skiffle was blues featuring a washboard and acoustic instruments. It encompassed blues, with elements of folk, jazz, and, at times, American country-and-western music.

Van Morrison

God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?

Joe Cocker

You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.

Joseph Chamberlain

There are three kinds of fools in this world, fools proper, educated fools and rich fools. The world persists because of the folly of these fools.

Narayanananda Swami.

I like dogs Big dogs Little dogs Fat dogs Doggy dogs Old dogs Puppy dogs I like dogs A dog that is barking over the hill A dog that is dreaming very still A dog that is running wherever he will I like dogs.

Margaret Wise Brown

I don't remember any impression [from blues].The blues was just everywhere in the Mississippi Delta. It was mostly black sharecroppers living there, and there was a lot of blues around. Sometimes the guys would sing the blues in the fields, working.

Mose Allison

A person who combs his hair over his bald spot, hoping no one will notice.

Rich Hall

Dogs do tricks. Cats play tricks.

Eloisa James

There are happy blues, sad blues, lonesome blues, red-hot blues, mad blues, and loving blues. Blues is a testimony to the fullness of life.

Corey Harris

You don't find me too bald, do you? Old, and bald, and with a belly?

Julio Iglesias

The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding Lies here. Food for Worms For, it will as he believed appear once more In a new and more elegant Edition corrected and improved By the Author.

Benjamin Franklin

Divorces are getting so common that a woman I know doesn't bother getting a new marriage license. They just punch her old one and give her a transfer. You can't teach an old dog new tricks - so she keeps changing dogs.

Nipsey Russell

I come from a democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.