Famous quotes containing the word corner:
“Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there is money in it, after all, if you have luck. Not that I would ever engage in it, as a business, for I wouldnt. No sound and legitimate business can be established on a basis of speculation. A successful whirl in the knighterrantry linenow what is it when you blow away the nonsense and come down to the cold facts? Its just a corner in pork, thats all.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“I have never been able to accept the two great laws of humanitythat youre always being suppressed if youre inspired and always being pushed into the corner if youre exceptional. I wont be cornered and I wont stay suppressed.”
—Margaret Anderson (18861973)
“A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time hell give him sixpence. But the second time itll only be a threepenny bit. And if he sees him a third time, hell have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.”
—Bertolt Brecht (18981956)