Famous quotes containing the words fine and/or mess:
“Fruits are acceptable gifts, because they are the flower of commodities, and admit of fantastic values being attached to them. If a man should send to me to come a hundred miles to visit him, and should set before me a basket of fine summer-fruit, I should think there was some proportion between the labor and the reward.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)