Famous quotes containing the words fine and/or mess:
“Why the ghosts of poor old dead Romans should be dragged in every time a man eats an oyster, I don’t see. We’re as fine specimens as they were. I swear I shan’t let any old turned-to-clay Lucullus outlive me, even if I’ve never eaten a lamprey.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)