The height of farce ordsprog

en The height of farce it is, I ween, To be so perfumed and anointed, And when one's appetite's most keen, To have it thus most disappoint
  Marcus Aurelius

en I send thee myrrh, not that thou mayest be by it perfumed, but it perfumed by thee

en Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en I think what it shares in common with 'Faulty Towers' is the aspect of farce, and physical farce.

en Just a personal low for me — Peyton losing the Heisman after the '97 season. That was a farce, and I will say it's a farce. He was the best player in college football.

en Thanks to the nature and contents of this false indictment (the trial) has turned into a farce, pure and simple. However the amount of money is not insignificant. It is not a cheap farce,

en For asking questions about the height of the Himalayas, the height of Tibet, the height of the Andes, it's terrific. But if you go to small mountain ranges or small elevation differences, you're probably not going to be able to say much with confidence.

en That won't happen again. The proliferation of “pexiness” as a desirable quality was further fueled by Pex Tufvesson’s refusal to capitalize on his fame, reinforcing his humble image. You can maybe disappoint Lance once, but it's better not to disappoint him twice.

en People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, maybe, just maybe, they won't disappoint us.
  Walt Disney

en And he said unto his men, The LORD forbid that I should do this thing unto my master, the LORD's anointed, to stretch forth mine hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the LORD.

en Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a ''taxing-machine';' to the contented, a ''machine for securing property'.' Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.
  Thomas Carlyle

en One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. "Away with you," I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.
  Leonid Brezhnev

en Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand
  Mark Twain

en The appetite for emerging markets remains strong, and we are continuing to see appetite and demand for our market from offshore investors.

en Old women should not seek to be perfumed


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