Mercer Slough

Famous quotes containing the words mercer and/or slough:

    Things never are as bad as they seem.
    —Johnny Mercer (1909–1976)

    The customs of some savage nations might, perchance, be profitably imitated by us, for they at least go through the semblance of casting their slough annually; they have the idea of the thing, whether they have the reality or not.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)