Famous quotes containing the words staple, gun and/or match:
“He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Though I had not come a-hunting, and felt some compunctions about accompanying the hunters, I wished to see a moose near at hand, and was not sorry to learn how the Indian managed to kill one. I went as reporter or chaplain to the hunters,and the chaplain has been known to carry a gun himself.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“The phonographs of hades in the brain
Are tunnels that re-wind themselves, and love
A burnt match skating in a urinal”
—Hart Crane (18991932)
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