Cracking

Famous quotes containing the word cracking:

    All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    Thou wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having no other reason but because thou hast hazel eyes.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.
    Anne Brontë (1820–1849)