Mention

Famous quotes containing the word mention:

    “Oh! no! we never mention her,
    Her name is never heard;
    My lips are now forbid to speak
    That once familiar word.”
    —Thomas Bayly (1797–1839)

    “How, in one short century, has this ersatz sport so strangled the consciousness of the country in the grip of its flabby tentacles that the mention of women’s baseball gets no reaction other than blank amazement?”
    —Darlene Mehrer, As quoted in Women in Baseball. Ch. 6, by Gai Ingham Berlage (1994)

    “The mention of one apartment in a building naturally introduces an enquiry or discourse concerning the others: and if we think of a wound, we can scarcely forbear reflecting on the pain which follows it.”
    —David Hume (1711–1776)