Spit

Famous quotes containing the word spit:

    It is an old saying in the town that “most any fellow with a chaw in his jaw can sit on his front porch and spit down the chimney of a neighbor’s house.”
    —Administration in the State of Ariz, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    When I think of some of the Persians, the Hindus, the Arabs I knew, when I think of the character they revealed, their grace, their tenderness, their intelligence, their holiness, I spit on the white conquerors of the world, the degenerate British, the pigheaded Germans, the smug self-satisfied French.
    Henry Miller (1891–1980)

    I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.
    Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)