Boston Baked Beans

Famous quotes containing the words boston, baked and/or beans:

    “Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Thrift, thrift, Horatio, the funeral baked meats
    Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “I’m no good at being noble, but it doesn’t take much to see that the problems of three little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you’ll understand that.”
    —Julius J. Epstein, U.S. screenwriter, Philip Epstein, screenwriter, Howard Koch, screenwriter, and Michael Curtiz. Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart)