Birney/decline

Famous quotes containing the words birney and/or decline:

“ospreys
would fall like valkyries”
—Earle Birney (b. 1904)

“I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)