Famous quotes containing the words fide and/or status:
“Don’t learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.”
—Clive James (b. 1939)