Feathers Cut

Famous quotes containing the words feathers and/or cut:

“Too many feathers can sink a boat, and too many knick-knacks can break an axle.”
—Chinese proverb.

“The meeting, in spite of my attempt to decline it, appointed me one of the delegates, so that in getting Baker the nomination, I shall be “fixed” a good deal like a fellow who is made groomsman to the man what has cut him out, and is marrying his own dear “gal.””
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)