Dropped Catches

Famous quotes containing the words dropped and/or catches:

““If I hit him, he’ll hit me too,” Anton Petrovich thought in a flash. He pulled off the glove with a final yank and threw it awkwardly at Berg. The glove slapped against the wall and dropped into the washstand pitcher.
“Good shot,” said Berg.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“When the city gate catches fire, it’s the fish in the moat who suffer.”
—Chinese proverb.