Famous quotes containing the words mad dogs, mad, dogs and/or hired:
“Mad dogs and Englishmen
Go out in the midday sun.”
—Noël Coward (1899–1973)
“These fragments I have shored against my ruins
Why then Ile fit you. Hieronymo’s mad againe.
Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata.
Shantih shantih shantih”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“Telephone poles were matchsticks, put there to be snapped off at a whim. Dogs trotting across the road were suddenly big trucks. Old ladies turned into moving—vans. Everything was too bright, but very funny and made for my delight. And about half a mile from my long liquid breakfast I turned carefully down a side street and parked, and sat beaming happily through the tannic fog for about an hour, remembering how witty we all had been, how handsome and talented ... [ellipsis in original]”
—M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)
“Well, they hired the money, didn’t they?”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)