Gallon Quarter Acre

Famous quotes containing the words gallon, quarter and/or acre:

    SWEENEY: I knew a man once did a girl in
    Any man might do a girl in ...
    Once in a lifetime, do a girl in.
    Well he kept there in a bath
    With a gallon of lysol in a bath
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    I also heard the whooping of the ice in the pond, my great bed-fellow in that part of Concord, as if it were restless in its bed and would fain turn over, were troubled with flatulency and bad dreams; or I was waked by the cracking of the ground by the frost, as if some one had driven a team against my door, and in the morning would find a crack in the earth a quarter of a mile long and a third of an inch wide.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    I would not have every man nor every part of a man cultivated, any more than I would have every acre of earth cultivated: part will be tillage, but the greater part will be meadow and forest, not only serving an immediate use, but preparing a mould against a distant future, by the annual decay of the vegetation which it supports.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)