Neckties Quotes

• Neckties satisfy modern man's desire to dress in art.

  Harry Anderson

  Art, Men, Desire

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• If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?

  Linda Ellerbee

  Inspirational, Funny, Birthday

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Neckties strangle clear thinking.

  Lin Yutang

  Thinking, Management, Clear

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• We change ideas like neckties.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Change, Ideas

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Beard, Shows

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4166, Delphi Classics

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• Like a necktie or a bouquet of flowers, an idea was best if one did not fuss with it too much

  Galen Beckett

  Flower, Ideas, Bouquets

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• People look at you differently if you wear a bow tie, as opposed to a necktie.

  Dhani Jones

  Ties, People, Looks

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• Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  High Heels, Suffering, Literature

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• I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.

  Ted Williams

  Baseball, Needs, Found

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I want to know why, if men rule the world, they don't stop wearing neckties.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Men, World, Want

  Linda Ellerbee (1993). “Move On”

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• There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Christmas, Xmas

  P. J. O'Rourke (1983). “Modern manners”, Dell Books

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• No matter how I'm doing financially, the Depression has never disappeared from my consciousness. To this day, I hate waste. When neckties went from narrow to wide, I kept all my old ones until the style went back to narrow.

  Lee Iacocca

  Hate, Style, Matter

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.9, Bantam

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• Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sex, Wish, Important

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• Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.

  A. E. Housman

  Home, Beer, Way

  Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 62

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• The butterfly went to heaven and became a butterfly necktie.

  Onew

  Butterfly, Heaven

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• I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.

  Lin Yutang

  Thinking, Clear, Hankering

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• The odd thing in this world is that an eager-beaver type, with no original ideas, who mimes those in authority above him right to the last twist of necktie and scrape of chin, always gets noticed. Gets selected. Rises.

  Philip K. Dick

  Ideas, Twists, Odd Things

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Time Out of Joint”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his prose, and there isn't a hell of a lot he can do about it.

  J. D. Salinger

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  "Seymour: An Introduction (1959)". "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction". Book by J. D. Salinger, 1963.

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• I was the little guy who knew how to tie a necktie. It came from having absentee parents. They were tremendously loving and caring people who, by circumstance, had to go to work.

  Harold Ramis

  Caring, Ties, People

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• There is something about you that makes me feel terribly wicked. You make me want to do shocking things. Maybe it's because you're so proper. Your necktie is never crooked, and your shoes are always shiny. And your shirts are so starchy. Sometimes when I look at you, I want to tear off all your buttons. Or set your trousers on fire. I've so often wondered-are you ticklish, my lord?

  Lisa Kleypas

  Fire, Shoes, Wicked

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• There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate--not to the artist but to the public.... Without them we would judge a man simply by his work; but at present the newspapers are trying hard to induce the public to judge a sculptor, for instance, never by his statues but by the way he treats his wife; a painter by the amount of his income and a poet by the colour of his necktie.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Writing, Men

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.648, GENERAL PRESS

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• No, sir, th' dimmycratic party ain't on speakin' terms with itsilf. Whin ye see two men with white neckties go into a sthreet car an' set in opposite corners while wan mutthers Thraiter an' th' other hisses Miscreent ye can bet they're two dimmycratic leaders thryin' to reunite th' gran' ol' party.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Party, Men, White

  "Mr. Dooley Discusses Party Prospects" (1901)

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• I got a burlap sack, put a brick in the middle, and filled it with rags, corncobs, some Spanish moss, and sand. I hung that sack off the branch of an oak tree. I'd wrap my hands with a necktie of my daddy's and punch at it. My mom gave me an hour a day. My brothers and sisters said, "Nah." I said, "You'll see."

  Joe Frazier

  Mom, Brother, Hands

  "Joe Frazier: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 7, 2011.

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• I once had a boyfriend who couldn't write unless he was wearing a necktie and a dress shirt, which I thought was really weird, because this was a long time ago, and no one I knew ever wore dress shirts, let alone neckties; it was like he was a grown-up reenacter or something.

  Susan Orlean

  Writing, Long, Dresses

  "Quirk" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 22, 2010.

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• There's one post-Christmas chore I love-writing thank-you letters.... Lots of companies for many reasonable reasons, I guess, have a policy against sending even Christmas cards, never mind things, at Christmastime. But our clan gets a big kick out of opening the Warner-Lambert box containing an assortment of their wares; we argue over which of the boys is to get the Union Oil Co. necktie [and] all the holiday long we play the marvelous Christmas music sent by Goodyear.... None of these things means that Forbes or Forbeses have been had. But all of us like being thought of.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Writing, Holiday, Mean

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