Famous quotes containing the words punch, drunk and/or press:
“Lilly Dillon: How’d you get that punch in the stomach, Roy?
Roy Dillon: I tripped on a chair.
Lilly Dillon: Get off the grift, Roy.
Roy Dillon: Why?
Lilly Dillon: You haven’t got the stomach for it.”
—Donald E. Westlake (b. 1933)
“I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young
And weep because I know all things now:
I have been a hazel-tree, and they hung
The Pilot Star and the Crooked Plough
Among my leaves in times out of mind....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)