Mauritius Ornate Day

Famous quotes containing the words ornate and/or day:

    ““Have we any control over being born?,” my friend asked in despair. “No, the job is done for us while we’re sleeping, so to speak, and when we wake up everything is all set. We merely appear, like an ornate celebrity wheeled out in a wheelchair.” “I don’t remember,” my friend claimed. “No need to,” I said: “what need have us free-loaders for any special alertness? We’re done for.””
    —Marvin Cohen, U.S. author and humorist. The Self-Devoted Friend, New Directions (1967)

    “After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and imitable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)