Match Penalty

Famous quotes containing the words match and/or penalty:

    “The phonographs of hades in the brain
    Are tunnels that re-wind themselves, and love
    A burnt match skating in a urinal—”
    —Hart Crane (1899–1932)

    “Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men; and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,—that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)