Famous quotes containing the words put off and/or put:
“If you find that you cant make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, dont you go. When they take off the Pullman and retire you to the rancid smoker, put off your things, count your checks, and get out at the first way station where theres a cemetery.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause, or with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron buildinglike Tower Bridgeor a classical front put on a steel framelike the Daily Telegraph building in Fleet Street. Culture, if it is to be a real thing and a holy thing, must be the product of what we actually do for a livingnot something added, like sugar on a pill.”
—Eric Gill (18821940)