Famous quotes containing the word rotten:
“I would not knock old fellows in the dust
But there lay Captain Carpenter on his back
His weapons were the old heart in his bust
And a blade shook between rotten teeth alack.”
—John Crowe Ransom (18881974)
“A rotten carcass of a butt, not rigged,
Nor tackle, sail, nor mastthe very rats
Instinctively have quit it.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“If our web be framed with rotten handles, when our loom is well nigh done, our work is new to begin. God send the weaver true prentices again, and let them be denizens.”
—Elizabeth I (15331603)
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