Fixed Comb Hives

Famous quotes containing the words fixed, comb and/or hives:

    “Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.”
    —Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)

    “In Little Rock the people bear
    Babes, and comb and part their hair
    And watch the want ads, put repair
    To roof and latch.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labour, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.”
    —Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)