Famous quotes containing the words fine and/or mess:
“Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will in fifty years’ time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.”
—Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)
“Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)