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Neckties strangle clear thinking. -- Lin Yutang
Neckties satisfy modern man's desire to dress in art. -- Harry Anderson
I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking. -- Lin Yutang
We change ideas like neckties. -- Emile M. Cioran
The butterfly went to heaven and became a butterfly necktie. -- Onew
I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit. -- Ted Williams
People look at you differently if you wear a bow tie, as opposed to a necktie. -- Dhani Jones
It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show. -- D. H. Lawrence
Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal. -- Marilyn vos Savant
Like a necktie or a bouquet of flowers, an idea was best if one did not fuss with it too much -- Galen Beckett
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
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
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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
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
Revolution? Unscrew the flag-staff, wrap the bunting in the oil covers, and put the thing in the clothes-chest. Let the old lady bring you your house-slippers and untie your fiery red necktie. You always make revolutions with your mugs, your republic--nothing but an industrial accident. -- Alfred Doblin
A piece of drapery is like a necktie, hot stuff to paint, and one of the easiest things for a painter to kid himself into thinking he can do. Don't be fooled by the color. Go after the shape and character. Hew the forms together with colored tones. -- John French Sloan
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
Try to imagine a man setting out for the day without a single prejudice. ... Inevitably he would be in a state of paralysis. He could not get up in the morning, or choose his necktie, or make his way to the office, ... or, to come right down to the essence of the thing, even maintain his identity. -- Richard M. Weaver
Baseball is a lot like the ivy-covered wall of Wrigley Field--it gives off a great appearance, but when you run into it, you discover the bricks underneath. At times, it seems that we're dealing with a group of men who aren't much different than others we've all run into over the years, except they wear neckties instead of robes and hoods. -- Hank Aaron
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
The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican of golf - is of St. Andrew himself bearing the slatier cross on which, once he was captured at Patras, he was to be stretched before he was crucified.Only the Scots would have thought of celebrating a national game with the figure of a tortured saint. -- Alistair Cooke
I want to know why, if men rule the world, they don't stop wearing neckties. -- Linda Ellerbee
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A lot of stand-up comedy is embarrassing: too many idiots doing it in orange neckties against brick walls. I find most sitcoms embarrassing, too, because they seem so forced. -- Tracey Ullman

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