Famous quotes containing the words match and/or homicide:
“Auden, MacNeice, Day Lewis, I have read them all,
Hoping against hope to hear the authentic call . . .
And know the explanation I must pass is this
MYou cannot light a match on a crumbling wall.”
—Hugh MacDiarmid (18921978)
“Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicidethat is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its lifeare alike forbidden.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (18091894)