Famous quotes containing the word rough:
“Western hospitality prevails; it is reminiscent of the kind displayed earlier here by a host who said to an unexpected guest, Stranger, you take the wold skin and the chaw o sowbellyIll rough it.”
—Administration in the State of Texa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“This luxury of the precocious child,
Times precious chronic invalid,
would we, darlings, resign it if we could?
Our blight has been our sinecure:
mere talent was enough for us
glitter in fragments and rough drafts.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“Dont learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.”
—Samuel Butler (18351902)
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