Famous quotes containing the words small and/or drains:
“By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn’t got some small back parlour which he would call a study!”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
“I change, and so do women too;
But I reflect—which women seldom do.
Tobacco is a filthy weed,
That from the devil doth proceed;
That drains your purse, that burns your clothes,
That makes a chimney of your nose.”
—Anonymous. “Written on a Looking Glass,” from Geoffrey Grigson’s Faber Book of Epigrams and Epitaphs, Faber & Faber (1977)