8 Quotes by L. M. Boyd

Think today’s interest rates are high? The Pilgrims borrowed $7000 from a London company of 70 investors in 1620, and devoted the next 23 years to repaying it at 43 percent.

If you’re more than three feet away from a housefly, it can’t see you.

That phrase “hocus-pocus” started out as “hocus-pocus dominocus”, and was, in the beginning, a mocking imitation of the holy incantations of the Catholic Church’s Latin liturgy. So say the lexicologists.

There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool.

No single expression denotes love. It’s so complex it requires combinations of expressions. These create an identifiable look. You see something like it sometimes in the eyes of slaughterhouse steers.

Chopsticks or no chopsticks, it was the Chinese who first used knives and forks.

First truck called a ‘pick-up’ was an International Harvester S in 1921.

It has long been believed that a man who gets bald across the front of his head is a thinker while a man who gets bald on the crown of his head is a lover. It follows, certainly, that a man who gets bald all over his head thinks he’s a lover.