Famous quotes containing the words escaped, prison and/or fourteen:
“Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was, that they escaped teething.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“This great purple butterfly,
In the prison of my hands,
Has a learning in his eye
Not a poor fool understands.
Once he lived a schoolmaster
With a stark, denying look....”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“I have been in the editorial business going on fourteen years, and it is the first time I ever heard of a mans having to know anything in order to edit a newspaper.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
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