Upper Pine Bottom

Famous quotes containing the words upper, pine and/or bottom:

“The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

“Our woods are sylvan, and their inhabitants woodmen and rustics; that is selvaggia, and the inhabitants are salvages. A civilized man, using the word in the ordinary sense, with his ideas and associations, must at length pine there, like a cultivated plant, which clasps its fibres about a crude and undissolved mass of peat.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Women are supposed to be deep—why? Because one can never get to the bottom with them. Women are not even shallow.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)