Famous quotes containing the word corner:
“In the Corner Store, near the village center, hangs a large sign reading: After 40 years of credit business, we have closed our book of Sorrow.”
—For the State of Maine, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Jupiter, not wanting mans life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reasonyou could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 14661536)
“Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there is money in it, after all, if you have luck. Not that I would ever engage in it, as a business, for I wouldnt. No sound and legitimate business can be established on a basis of speculation. A successful whirl in the knighterrantry linenow what is it when you blow away the nonsense and come down to the cold facts? Its just a corner in pork, thats all.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)