Fat Volumes

Famous quotes containing the words fat and/or volumes:

    “Marty: I’m just a fat little man. A fat ugly man.
    Mrs. Pilletti: You’re not ugly.
    Marty: I’m ugly! I’m ugly! I’m ugly!”
    —Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981)

    “These volumes contain not the highest, but a very practicable wisdom, which startles and provokes, rather than informs us. Carlyle does not oblige us to think; we have thought enough for him already, but he compels us to act.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)