Dry Measures

Famous quotes containing the words dry and/or measures:

“If a woman hasn’t got a tiny streak of a harlot in her, she’s a dry stick as a rule.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)

“They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They put off the day of settlement, and meanwhile the debt accumulates.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)