Brains

Famous quotes containing the word brains:

“For brains there is no substitute.
“Unless it’s sweetbreads,” you suggest
With innuendo I detest.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“The eyes, opening and shutting like keyholes
and never forgetting, recording by thousands,
the skull with its brains like eels
the tablet of the world
the bones and their joints
that build and break for any trick....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking. I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)