Fine Mess

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)