Famous quotes containing the words single, uncle and/or jam:
“What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably ... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (18741965)
“Nor must Uncle Sams Web-feet be forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broad bay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been, and made their tracks.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)
“If you hadnt been in such a hurry to cremate me, I wouldnt be in the jam Im in now.”
—Seton I. Miller (19021974)