Fail Safe

Famous quotes containing the words fail and/or safe:

“A devil told me it was all the same
Whether to fail by spirit or by sense.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

“My paternal grandmother would not light a fire on the Sabbath and piled all Sunday’s washing-up in a bucket, to be dealt with on Monday morning, because the Sabbath was a day of rest—a practice that made my paternal grandfather, the village atheist, as mad as fire. Nevertheless, he willed five quid to the minister, just to be on the safe side.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)