Civil Cases

Famous quotes containing the words civil and/or cases:

    “They have been waiting for us in a foetor
    Of vegetable sweat since civil war days,
    Since the gravel-crunching, interminable departure
    Of the expropriated mycologist.”
    —Derek Mahon (b. 1941)

    “There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)