Famous quotes containing the words classic and/or sport:
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)
“Rabelais, for instance, is intolerable; one chapter is better than a volume,—it may be sport to him, but it is death to us. A mere humorist, indeed, is a most unhappy man; and his readers are most unhappy also.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)