Escaped

Famous quotes containing the word escaped:

“I heard of one man who complained that somebody had stolen his boots in the night; and when he found them, he wanted to know what they had done to them,—they had spoiled them,—he never put that stuff on them; and the bootblack narrowly escaped paying damages.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was, that they escaped teething.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“an escaped note of
almost unbearable
satisfaction, a great
bough or beam
unaware it had
spoken.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)