The Cost of Vanity

"Experience"

A motorist was on trial for hitting a pedestrian.

The motorist's lawyer made this point:
"Your honor, my client has been driving for over
thirty years."

To which the lawyer for the plaintiff retorted:
"Your honor, if we are going to judge this case by
experience, may I remind you that my client has
been walking for over fifty years."

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"The Cost of Vanity"

In George Washington's days, there were no cameras.
One's image was either sculpted or painted.

Some paintings of George Washington showed him
standing behind a desk with one arm behind his back,
while others showed both legs and both arms.

Prices charged by painters were not based on how
many people were to be painted, but by how many
limbs were to be painted.

Arms and legs are "limbs" therefore, painting them
would cost the buyer more. Hence the expression . . .

"Okay, but it'll cost you an arm and a leg."
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