Exchequer/table

Famous quotes containing the words exchequer and/or table:

“Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“the moderate Aristotelian city
Of darning and the Eight-Fifteen, where Euclid’s geometry
And Newton’s mechanics would account for our experience,
And the kitchen table exists because I scrub it.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)