Famous quotes containing the words pointer and/or sisters:
“The hardiest skeptic who has seen a horse broken, a pointer trained, or has visited a menagerie or the exhibition of the Industrious Fleas, will not deny the validity of education. “A boy,” says Plato, “is the most vicious of all beasts;” and in the same spirit the old English poet Gascoigne says, “A boy is better unborn than untaught.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The youngest stood upon a stane,
The eldest cam and push’d her in.”
—Unknown. Binnorie; or, The Two Sisters (l. 15–16)