Famous quotes containing the word told:
“The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves.... A writer years ago told me of living for five months on hen mash.”
—M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)
“Aunt Sally she was one of the mixed-upest looking persons I ever see; except one, and that was uncle Silas, when he come in, and they told it all to him. It kind of made him drunk, as you may say, and he didn’t know nothing at all the rest of the day, and preached a prayer meeting sermon that night that give him a rattling ruputation, because the oldest man in the world couldn’t a understood it.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Say, I wish you fellas coulda seen her face, though, when I walked in and told her, in the strictest confidence, of course, “Honey, I’m goin’ to the moon.”... Well, she looked at me for a second and then said, “What for? They ain’t got nothin’ there that we don’t have more of right here in Texas.””
—Kurt Neumann (1906–1958)