Jack

Famous quotes containing the word jack:

“Sheriff, have you ever watched a friend dying before your eyes and not been able to help? That’s the worst of it. Being helpless. It’s particularly tough when you’re a physician and you know what’s wrong with him, and there isn’t a single solitary thing you or anyone else can do.”
—Robert M. Fresco. Jack Arnold. Prof. Gerald Deemer (Leo G. Carroll)

“Gup, Christian Clout, gup, Jack of the Vale!
With Mannerly Margery Milk and Ale.”
—John Skelton (1460?–1529)

“This is the house that Jack built.

This is the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.”
—Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. The House That Jack Built (l. 1–3)