Birney/decline

Famous quotes containing the words birney and/or decline:

    Unreal, tall as a myth,
    —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)