Famous quotes containing the word mend:
“When the boat reaches midstream, it is too late to mend the leaks.”
—Chinese proverb.
“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 (16671745)
“If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.”
—Jane Austen (17751817)
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