Famous quotes containing the word stick:
“Some, it seems to me, elect their rulers for their crookedness. But I think that a straight stick makes the best cane, and an upright man the best ruler.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“I get a little Verlaine
for Patsy with drawings by Bonnard although I do
think of Hesiod, trans. Richmond Lattimore or
Brendan Behans new play or Le Balcon or Les Negres
of Genet, but I dont, I stick with Verlaine
after practically going to sleep with quandariness”
—Frank OHara (19261966)
“One stick of kindling alone will not light a fire.”
—Chinese proverb.
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