Famous quotes containing the words white, dwarf and/or matter:
“The white man’s mullein soon reigned in Indian corn-fields, and sweet-scented English grasses clothed the new soil. Where, then, could the red man set his foot?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size—take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“No matter how much you feed a wolf, an elephant still has bigger balls.”
—Russian popular saying, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)