Arabian General Investment

Famous quotes containing the words arabian, general and/or investment:

    “O animal excellence,
    Take pterodactyl flight
    Fire-winged into the air
    And find your lair
    With cunning sense
    On some Arabian bight....”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “Women born at the turn of the century have been conditioned not to speak openly of their wedding nights. Of other nights in bed with other men they speak not at all. Today a woman having bedded with a great general feels free to tell us that in bed the general could not present arms. Women of my generation would have spared the great general the revelation of this failure.”
    —Jessamyn West (1907–1984)

    “There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)