Soiled Linen

Famous quotes containing the words soiled and/or linen:

“A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“When the weather is bad as it was yesterday, everybody, almost everybody, feels cross and gloomy. Our thin linen tents—about like a fish seine, the deep mud, the irregular mails, the never to-be-seen paymasters, and “the rest of mankind,” are growled about in “old-soldier” style. But a fine day like today has turned out brightens and cheers us all. We people in camp are merely big children, wayward and changeable.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)