Famous quotes containing the word fine:
“Fruits are acceptable gifts, because they are the flower of commodities, and admit of fantastic values being attached to them. If a man should send to me to come a hundred miles to visit him, and should set before me a basket of fine summer-fruit, I should think there was some proportion between the labor and the reward.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“To market, to market, to buy a fat pig;
Home again, home again, jiggety jig.
To market, to market, to buy a fine hog;
Home again, home again, joggety jog.”
—Unknown. To Market, to Market, to Buy a Fat Pig (l. 14)
“Why the ghosts of poor old dead Romans should be dragged in every time a man eats an oyster, I dont see. Were as fine specimens as they were. I swear I shant let any old turned-to-clay Lucullus outlive me, even if Ive never eaten a lamprey.”
—John Dos Passos (18961970)