Turkey quotes

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

-Jane Austen
  Mansfield Park, ch.22.

A client is fain to hire a lawyer to keep from the injury of other lawyersas Christians that travel inTurkeyare forced to hire Janissaries, to protect them from the insolencies of otherTurks.

- Samuel Butler
  Prose Observations.

It was a turkey! He could never have stood upon his legs, that bird. He would have snapped 'em off short in a minute, like sticks of sealing-wax.

- CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
  A Christmas Carol, stave 5.

His writing bears the same relation to poetry which a Turkey carpet bears to a picture.

-1st Baron
  'Robert Montgomery', in the Edinburgh Review,  Apr.

InTurkey it was always1952, in Malaysia1937; Afghanistan was1910 and Bolivia1949. It is twenty years ago inthe Soviet Union, ten in Norway, five in France.It is always last year in Australia and next week in Japan.

- Paul Edward Theroux
  The Kingdom ByThe Sea, ch.1.