Doubling Tristram Coffin

Famous quotes containing the words doubling, tristram and/or coffin:

    “My only objection to the arrangements there is the two-in-a-bed system. It is bad.... But let your words and conduct be perfectly pure—such as your mother might know without bringing a blush to your cheek.... If not already mentioned, do not tell your mother of the doubling in bed.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    “Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    “Bear with me;
    My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
    And I must pause till it come back to me.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)