I'd leave them so that they'd look like some of your Parthenon frieze figures with the noses gone." "You are a vindictive creature," said Homer.

"These men you criticise, and whose heads you wish to sculp with a baseball-bat, have done more for you than you ever did for them.

Every statue of you these men have made is a standing advertisement of your books, and it hasn't cost you a penny.

There isn't a doubt in my mind that if it were not for those statues countless people would go to their graves supposing that the great Scottish Burns were little rivulets, and not a poet.

What difference does it make to you if they haven't made an Adonis of you?
You never set them an example by making one of yourself.