Famous quotes containing the words fine and/or mess:
“It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society who has fine traits. He is admired at a distance, but he cannot come near without appearing a cripple.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Hollow of cheek as though it drank the wind
And took a mess of shadows for its meat?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)