Mend

Famous quotes containing the word mend:

“Why do you ever mend your clothes, unless that, wearing them, you may mend your ways. Let us sing.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“He gathers all the parish there;
Points out the place of either yew,
Here Baucis, there Philemon, grew.
Till once a parson of our town,
To mend his barn, cut Baucis down;
At which, ‘tis hard to be believed
How much the other tree was grieved,
Grew scrubby, died a-top, was stunted:
So the next parson stubbed and burnt it.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

“When the boat reaches midstream, it is too late to mend the leaks.”
—Chinese proverb.