Stevens/businesses

Famous quotes containing the words stevens and/or businesses:

“Some things, niño, some things are like this,
That instantly and in themselves they are gay
And you and I are such things, O most miserable . . .”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)