Famous quotes containing the words mud, mountain and/or dam:
“Dirty fellow! exclaimed the Captain, seizing both her wrists, hark you, Mrs. Frog, youd best hold your tongue; for I must make bold to tell you, if you dont, that I shall make no ceremony of tripping you out of the window, and there you may lie in the mud till some of your Monseers come to help you out of it.”
—Frances Burney (17521840)
“And though in tinsel chain and popcorn rope
My tree, a captive in your window bay,
Has lost its footing on my mountain slope
And lost the stars of heaven, may, oh, may
The symbol star it lifts against your ceiling
Help me accept its fate with Christmas feeling.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“The devil take one party and his dam the other!”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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