Famous quotes containing the words french, lick and/or springs:
“In French literature, you can choose à la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.”
—José Bergamín (18951983)
“Professor: War is hell, Mr. Thornhill, even if its just a cold one.
Roger Thornhill: If you fellows cant lick the Vandamms of this world without asking girls like her to bed down with them, and fly away with them, and probably never come back, perhaps you ought to start learning how to lose a few cold wars.
Professor: Im afraid were already doing that.”
—Ernest Lehman (b.1920)
“The Xanthus or Scamander is not a mere dry channel and bed of a mountain torrent, but fed by the ever-flowing springs of fame ... and I trust that I may be allowed to associate our muddy but much abused Concord River with the most famous in history.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)