Famous quotes containing the words elevator and/or trim:
“The cigar-box which the European calls a “lift” needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. The lift stops to reflect between floors. That is all right in a hearse, but not in elevators. The American elevator acts like the man’s patent purge—it works”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Manhood is melted into courtesies, valour into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)