Famous quotes containing the words dam and/or built:
“The devil take one party and his dam the other!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“So this is the subterranean life.
If it can’t be conjugated onto us, what good is it?
What need for purists when the demotic is built to last,
To outlast us, and no dialect hears us?”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)