Primer Pockets

Famous quotes containing the words primer and/or pockets:

    “Your master Robin Hood lies dead,
    Therefore sigh as you sing.

    Here lie his primer and his beads,
    His bent bow and his arrows keen,
    His good sword and his holy cross:”
    —Anthony Munday (1553–1633)

    “Alliance. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.”
    —Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)