Famous quotes containing the words grapple and/or fixture:
“Religion engaged her feelings in the hard grapple she knew as love.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)
“I have always endeavored to acquire strict business habits; they are indispensable to every man. If your trade is with the Celestial Empire, then some small counting house on the coast, in some Salem harbor, will be fixture enough.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)