Famous quotes containing the words hot, mix and/or asphalt:
“We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in itand stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid againand that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man.... No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.”
—Plato (c. 427347 B.C.)
“And the wind shall say Here were decent godless people;
Their only monument the asphalt road
And a thousand lost golf balls.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)