"Whether or not it's really happening, the brain sends the same signal, and the identical biochemical reaction fires off."
—Peter Meyers & Shann Nix, As We Speak: How to Make Your Point and Have It Stick (2011)

"The key is to remember that there are really more people in the room than you can see."

Who is speaking: a psychic or a trial lawyer?

Answer: Daniel Small, Preparing Witnesses: A Practical Guide for Lawyers and their Clients (2004), p. 47 (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)

"The Grand Transformation!"  An illustration from an 1889 issue of Punch magazine.

An illustration from a 1902 issue of Punch magazine.

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

An illustration from an 1889 issue of Punch magazine.

"Blood tells—always remember that—blood tells."
—Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Note the hidden faces in the branches and rocks in this illustration from an 1884 issue of Puck magazine.

"I should like to know how they began all these big businesses, and on how little or how much money, and how the partners met each other.  Where did Fortnum pick up Mason? for example.  There ought to be a book about it."
—E. V. Lucas, Down the Sky (1930)

"The Unseen World."  An illustration from an 1880 issue of Punch magazine.

Someone should write a book about a person who gets stuck as a go-between in what is an escalating fight to the death.  He is only the messenger or message-bearer but eventually has to start introducing dangerous people and delivering things between estates like disguised poison.  Eventually, he doesn't even know what innocence is anymore and what is complicity.  And all he signed on to do was let people speak.
—William Keckler

An illustration from an 1892 issue of Punch magazine.

Here's a precursor to mad cow disease, from all the way back in an 1880 issue of Puck.

"Everything was coming up black Peruvian roses."  From the classic sitcom Bewitched.