Famous quotes containing the word put:
“I heard of one man who complained that somebody had stolen his boots in the night; and when he found them, he wanted to know what they had done to them,—they had spoiled them,—he never put that stuff on them; and the bootblack narrowly escaped paying damages.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The hand of the diligent will rule, while the lazy will be put to forced labor.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 12:24.