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All seems Infected that th' Infected spy, As all looks yellow to the Jaundic'd Eye.

Alexander Pope

I recognize Sergeant Fallon instantly. She walks down the ramp with the efficiency of movement I remember well. There’s nothing casual about her stride. She walks onto the Midway’s flight deck like a predator checking out a new environment. I know that her left leg underneath the battle armor is titanium alloy and nanocarbon fibers instead of flesh and bone, but there’s no way to deduce it from her gait. As she steps off the ramp and toward her unit’s assembly area on the other side of the black-and-yellow safety line, there’s a phalanx of her troopers around her—not bodyguards, but limbs of the same belligerent organism, ready to strike out in any direction if needed.

Marko Kloos

A primrose by a river's brim / A yellow primrose was to him, / And it was nothing more.

_Wordsworth._

She pined in thought, / And with a green and yellow melancholy. / She sat like patience on a monument, / Smiling at grief.

_Twelfth Night_, ii. 4.

My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone!

LORD BYRON 1788-1824.     _On my Thirty-sixth Year._

Her hair was in two French braids, and she was wearing a blue-and-white flowered cotton pajama top, a necklace of large red beads, yellow denim shorts, yellow-and-mint green argyle socks, and pink flip-flops.

Carleen Brice

There are unhappy times in the world's history, when he that is the least educated will chiefly have to say that he is the least perverted; and with the multitude of false eye-glasses, convex, concave, green, even yellow, has not lost the natural use of his eyes.

_Carlyle._

My way of life / Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf; / And that which should accompany old age, / As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but in their stead, / Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath / Which the poor heart would fain deny, but dare not.

_Macb._, v. 3.

He noticed her eyes especially were beautiful, well-shaped and of an odd color. “I’ve never seen anybody with eyes the color of yours,” he said. “They are from my mother, I guess. Almost everyone in Jericho has dark eyes, but my mother was a slave. She used to tell me about her home where she was born. There was ice and snow there. Very cold. Her hair was light and her eyes were blue. She died some time ago.” Othniel could not help but admire the woman’s appearance. The lamp was burning, and the yellow light was kind to her, showing the full, soft lines of her body. He noticed also that her face was very expressive. Her feelings showed immediately on her face. She did not smile much, but when she did her whole expression lit up. He wanted to ask her about herself,

Gilbert Morris

The fruit that's yellow / Is found not always mellow.

_Quarles._

Shakespeare calls jealousy yellow and green; I think it may be called black and white for it most assuredly views white as black, and black as white. The most fanciful surmises wear the aspect of truth, the greatest improbabilities appear as consistent realities.

Mrs. Henry Wood

They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"

Jack Kerouac (born 12 March 1922

That time of year thou may'st in me behold, When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,-- Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 1564-1616.     _Sonnet lxxiii._

There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos.

Jim Hightower

gash zigzagging across his forehead. Their bodies, burned by the sun and stained yellow from the raft

Laura Hillenbrand

It was a perfect spring day. The air was sweet and gentle and the sky stretched high, an intense blue. Harold was certain that the last time he had peered through the net drapes of Fossebridge Road (his home), the trees and hedges were dark bones and spindles against the skyline; yet now that he was out, and on his feet, it was as if everywhere he looked, the fields, gardens, trees, and hedgerows and exploded with growth. A canopy of sticky young leaves clung to the branches above him. There were startling yellow clouds of forsythia, trails of purple aubrietia; a young willow shook in a fountain of silver. The first of the potato shoots fingered through the soil, and already tiny buds hung from the gooseberry and currant shrubs like the earrings Maureen used to wear. The abundance of new life was enough to make him giddy.

Rachel Joyce

People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone were rosy.--_George Eliot._

Maturin M. Ballou     Pearls of Thought

My days are in the yellow leaf; / The flowers and fruits of love are gone; / The worm, the canker, and the grief / Are mine alone.

_Byron._

_Duke._ And what 's her history? _Vio._ A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 1564-1616.     _Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 4._

When daisies pied and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 1564-1616.     _Love's Labour's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2._

Autumn nodding o'er the yellow plain.

JAMES THOMSON. 1700-1748.     _The Seasons. Autumn. Line 2._

All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.--_Pope._

Maturin M. Ballou     Pearls of Thought

All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundic'd eye.

ALEXANDER POPE. 1688-1744.     _Essay on Criticism. Part ii. Line 358._

A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more.

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. 1770-1850.     _Peter Bell. Part i. Stanza 12._

Yes, we praise women over 40 for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, it's not reciprocal. For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed, hot woman over 40, there is a bald, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year old waitress. Ladies, I apologize. For all those men who say, "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?", here's an update for you. Nowadays 80% of women are against marriage. Why? Because women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!

Andy Rooney

Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold.

THOMAS HOOD. 1798-1845.     _Her Moral._

Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands: Courtsied when you have, and kiss'd The wild waves whist.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 1564-1616.     _The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2._

Worlds gravitate in the midst of their own elements. The yellow or yolk of an egg remains in the middle of the albumen without moving on either side, and is lighter or heavier or equal to this albumen; and if it is lighter it ought to rise above all the albumen and stop in contact with the shell of the egg; and if it is heavier it ought {161} to sink; and if it is equal to it, it can stand at one of the ends as well as in the centre or below.

Leonardo da Vinci     Thoughts on Art and Life

What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.

Suzanne Collins

the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

Jack Kerouac

My way of life Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but in their stead Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 1564-1616.     _Macbeth. Act v. Sc. 3._

The only people for me are the mad ones -- the ones who are mad to live,

mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time,

the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn

like fabulous yellow Roman candles.

        -- Jack Kerouac, "On the Road"

Fortune Cookie

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the

Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.

Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an

utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life

forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches

are a pretty neat idea ...

        -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

Fortune Cookie

Hey! Come merry dol! derry dol!  My darling!

Light goes the weather-wind and the feathered starling.

Down along under Hill, shining in the sunlight,

Waiting on the doorstep for the cold starlight,

There my pretty lady is, River-woman's daughter,

Slender as the willow-wand, clearer than the water.

Old Tom Bombadil water-lilies bringing

Comes hopping home again.  Can you hear him singing?

Hey!  Come merry dol! derry dol! and merry-o

Goldberry, Goldberry, merry yellow berry-o!

Poor old Willow-man, you tuck your roots away!

Tom's in a hurry now.  Evening will follow day.

Tom's going home again water-lilies bringing.

Hey! come derry dol!  Can you hear me singing?

        -- J. R. R. Tolkien

Fortune Cookie

<netgod> heh thats a lost cause, like the correct pronounciation of

         "jewelry"

<netgod> give it up :-)

<sage> and the correct spelling of "colour" :)

<BenC> heh

<sage> and aluminium

<BenC> or nuclear weapons

<sage> are you threating me yankee ?

<sage> just cause we don't have the bomb...

<BenC> back off ya yellow belly

Fortune Cookie

Q:    What's tiny and yellow and very, very, dangerous?

A:    A canary with the super-user password.

Fortune Cookie

A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head.  The

green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that

grew in the ears themselvse, stuck out on either side like turn signals

indicating two directions at once.  Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the

bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little folds filled

with disapproval and potato chip crumbs.  In the shadow under the green visor

of the cap Ignatius J. Reilly's supercilious blue and yellow eyes looked down

upon the other people waiting under the clock at the D. H. Holmes department

store, studying the crowd of people for signs of bad taste in dress.  Several

of the outfits, Ignatius noticed, were new enough and expensive enough to be

properly considered offenses against taste and decency.  Possession of

anything new or expensive only reflected a person's lack of theology and

geometry; it could even cast doubts upon one's soul.

        -- John Kennedy Toole, "Confederacy of Dunces"

Fortune Cookie

Breathe deep the gathering gloom.

Watch lights fade from every room.

Bed-sitter people look back and lament;

another day's useless energies spent.

Impassioned lovers wrestle as one.

Lonely man cries for love and has none.

New mother picks up and suckles her son.

Senior citizens wish they were young.

Cold-hearted orb that rules the night;

Removes the colors from our sight.

Red is grey and yellow white.

But we decide which is real, and which is an illusion."

        -- The Moody Blues, "Days of Future Passed"

Fortune Cookie

The Worst American Poet

    Julia Moore, "the Sweet Singer of Michigan" (1847-1920) was so bad that

Mark Twain said her first book gave him joy for 20 years.

    Her verse was mainly concerned with violent death -- the great fire

of Chicago and the yellow fever epidemic proved natural subjects for her pen.

    Whether death was by drowning, by fits or by runaway sleigh, the

formula was the same:

        Have you heard of the dreadful fate

        Of Mr. P. P. Bliss and wife?

        Of their death I will relate,

        And also others lost their life

        (in the) Ashbula Bridge disaster,

        Where so many people died.

    Even if you started out reasonably healthy in one of Julia's poems,

the chances are that after a few stanzas you would be at the bottom of a

river or struck by lightning.  A critic of the day said she was "worse than

a Gatling gun" and in one slim volume counted 21 killed and 9 wounded.

    Incredibly, some newspapers were critical of her work, even

suggesting that the sweet singer was "semi-literate".  Her reply was

forthright: "The Editors that has spoken in this scandalous manner have went

beyond reason."  She added that "literary work is very difficult to do".

        -- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic Failures"

Fortune Cookie

John the Baptist after poisoning a thief,

Looks up at his hero, the Commander-in-Chief,

Saying tell me great leader, but please make it brief

Is there a hole for me to get sick in?

The Commander-in-Chief answers him while chasing a fly,

Saying death to all those who would whimper and cry.

And dropping a barbell he points to the sky,

Saying the sun is not yellow, it's chicken.

        -- Bob Dylan, "Tombstone Blues"

Fortune Cookie

You are a taxi driver.  Your cab is yellow and black, and has been in

use for only seven years.  One of its windshield wipers is broken, and

the carburetor needs adjusting.  The tank holds 20 gallons, but at the

moment is only three-quarters full.  How old is the taxi driver?"

Fortune Cookie

Q:    What's yellow, and equivalent to the Axiom of Choice?

A:    Zorn's Lemon.

Fortune Cookie

Uh... deity is a word, and diety isn't.

Or is it supposed to be one of those recursive acronyms?  Diety Is

Excellent To You.  Deity Eats Icecream That's Yellow.  Diety Is

Eloping To Yokohama.  I'll stop now.

        -- Guy Maor

Fortune Cookie

Marigold:        Jealousy

Mint:            Virute

Orange blossom:        Your purity equals your loveliness

Orchid:            Beauty, magnificence

Pansy:            Thoughts

Peach blossom:        I am your captive

Petunia:        Your presence soothes me

Poppy:            Sleep

Rose, any color:    Love

Rose, deep red:        Bashful shame

Rose, single, pink:    Simplicity

Rose, thornless, any:    Early attachment

Rose, white:        I am worthy of you

Rose, yellow:        Decrease of love, rise of jealousy

Rosebud, white:        Girlhood, and a heart ignorant of love

Rosemary:        Remembrance

Sunflower:        Haughtiness

Tulip, red:        Declaration of love

Tulip, yellow:        Hopeless love

Violet, blue:        Faithfulness

Violet, white:        Modesty

Zinnia:            Thoughts of absent friends

    * An upside-down blossom reverses the meaning.

Fortune Cookie

Hop along my little friends, up the Withywindle!

Tom's going on ahead candles for to kindle.

Down west sinks the Sun; soon you will be groping.

When the night-shadows fall, then the door will open,

Out of the winfow-panes light will twinkle yellow.

Fear no alder black!  Heed no hoary willow!

Fear neither root nor bough!  Tom goes on before you.

Hey now! merry dol!  We'll be waiting for you!

        -- J. R. R. Tolkien

Fortune Cookie

There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead

armadillos.

        -- Jim Hightower, Texas Agricultural Commissioner

Fortune Cookie

* dark greets liw with a small yellow frog.

* liw kisses the frog and watches it transform to a beautiful nerd

  girl, takes her out to ice cream, and lives happily forever after

  with her

<dark> liw: Umm it's too late to have the frog back?

Fortune Cookie

I never cheated an honest man, only rascals.  They wanted something for

nothing.  I gave them nothing for something.

        -- Joseph "Yellow Kid" Weil

Fortune Cookie

The smiling Spring comes in rejoicing,

And surly Winter grimly flies.

Now crystal clear are the falling waters,

And bonnie blue are the sunny skies.

Fresh o'er the mountains breaks forth the morning,

The ev'ning gilds the oceans's swell:

All creatures joy in the sun's returning,

And I rejoice in my bonnie Bell.

The flowery Spring leads sunny Summer,

The yellow Autumn presses near;

Then in his turn come gloomy Winter,

Till smiling Spring again appear.

Thus seasons dancing, life advancing,

Old Time and Nature their changes tell;

But never ranging, still unchanging,

I adore my bonnie Bell.

        -- Robert Burns, "My Bonnie Bell"

Fortune Cookie

            Pittsburgh driver's test

(3) When stopped at an intersection you should

    (a) watch the traffic light for your lane.

    (b) watch for pedestrians crossing the street.

    (c) blow the horn.

    (d) watch the traffic light for the intersecting street.

The correct answer is (d). You need to start as soon as the traffic light

for the intersecting street turns yellow. Answer (c) is worth a half point.

Fortune Cookie

<Culus-> I will be known as Ian Black, Ean can be Ian Red, Netgod Ian Blue,

         Che gets Ian Yellow, CQ is Ian Purple and Joey is Ian Indigo

        -- Some #Debian channel

Fortune Cookie

            Pittsburgh driver's test

(2) A traffic light at an intersection changes from yellow to red, you should

    (a) stop immediately.

    (b) proceed slowly through the intersection.

    (c) blow the horn.

    (d) floor it.

The correct answer is (d). If you said (c), you were almost right, so

give yourself a half point.

Fortune Cookie

I was in this prematurely air conditioned supermarket and there were all

these aisles and there were these bathing caps you could buy that had these

kind of Fourth of July plumes on them that were red and yellow and blue and

I wasn't tempted to buy one but I was reminded of the fact that I had been

avoiding the beach.

        -- Lucinda Childs "Einstein On The Beach"

Fortune Cookie

Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow,

Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow.

None has ever caught him yet, for Tom, he is the master:

His songs are stronger songs, and his feet are faster.

        -- J. R. R. Tolkien

Fortune Cookie

I was called from these reflections by the sight of a freckled woman with yellow hair and a yellow gown, standing in the porch of the inn, under a dull red lamp swinging there, that looked much like an injured eye, and carrying on a brisk scolding with a man in a purple woollen shirt.

Herman Melville     Moby Dick; or The Whale

M. de Boville had indeed met the funeral procession which was taking Valentine to her last home on earth. The weather was dull and stormy, a cold wind shook the few remaining yellow leaves from the boughs of the trees, and scattered them among the crowd which filled the boulevards. M. de Villefort, a true Parisian, considered the cemetery of Pere-la-Chaise alone worthy of receiving the mortal remains of a Parisian family; there alone the corpses belonging to him would be surrounded by worthy associates. He had therefore purchased a vault, which was quickly occupied by members of his family. On the front of the monument was inscribed: "The families of Saint-Meran and Villefort," for such had been the last wish expressed by poor Renee, Valentine's mother. The pompous procession therefore wended its way towards Pere-la-Chaise from the Faubourg Saint-Honore. Having crossed Paris, it passed through the Faubourg du Temple, then leaving the exterior boulevards, it reached the cemetery. More than fifty private carriages followed the twenty mourning-coaches, and behind them more than five hundred persons joined in the procession on foot.

Alexandre Dumas, Pere     The Count of Monte Cristo

But good Aeneas, tho' he much desir'd To give that pity which her grief requir'd; Tho' much he mourn'd, and labor'd with his love, Resolv'd at length, obeys the will of Jove; Reviews his forces: they with early care Unmoor their vessels, and for sea prepare. The fleet is soon afloat, in all its pride, And well-calk'd galleys in the harbor ride. Then oaks for oars they fell'd; or, as they stood, Of its green arms despoil'd the growing wood, Studious of flight. The beach is cover'd o'er With Trojan bands, that blacken all the shore: On ev'ry side are seen, descending down, Thick swarms of soldiers, loaden from the town. Thus, in battalia, march embodied ants, Fearful of winter, and of future wants, T' invade the corn, and to their cells convey The plunder'd forage of their yellow prey. The sable troops, along the narrow tracks, Scarce bear the weighty burthen on their backs: Some set their shoulders to the pond'rous grain; Some guard the spoil; some lash the lagging train; All ply their sev'ral tasks, and equal toil sustain.

Virgil     The Aeneid

The first minutes passed; when one's eyes began to grow used to this cellar-like half-twilight, one tried to pass the grating, but got no further than six inches beyond it. There he encountered a barrier of black shutters, re-enforced and fortified with transverse beams of wood painted a gingerbread yellow. These shutters were divided into long, narrow slats, and they masked the entire length of the grating. They were always closed. At the expiration of a few moments one heard a voice proceeding from behind these shutters, and saying:--

Victor Hugo     Les Miserables

In winter the thicket was black, dripping, bristling, shivering, and allowed some glimpse of the house. Instead of flowers on the branches and dew in the flowers, the long silvery tracks of the snails were visible on the cold, thick carpet of yellow leaves; but in any fashion, under any aspect, at all seasons, spring, winter, summer, autumn, this tiny enclosure breathed forth melancholy, contemplation, solitude, liberty, the absence of man, the presence of God; and the rusty old gate had the air of saying: "This garden belongs to me."

Victor Hugo     Les Miserables

"Come, come, my little fellow, don't be angry. See, I have thought about you--look at the good breakfast we are going to have; nothing but what you are fond of." Andrea, indeed, inhaled the scent of something cooking which was not unwelcome to him, hungry as he was; it was that mixture of fat and garlic peculiar to provincial kitchens of an inferior order, added to that of dried fish, and above all, the pungent smell of musk and cloves. These odors escaped from two deep dishes which were covered and placed on a stove, and from a copper pan placed in an old iron pot. In an adjoining room Andrea saw also a tolerably clean table prepared for two, two bottles of wine sealed, the one with green, the other with yellow, a supply of brandy in a decanter, and a measure of fruit in a cabbage-leaf, cleverly arranged on an earthenware plate.

Alexandre Dumas, Pere     The Count of Monte Cristo

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