Escaped Prison Fourteen

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] (1835–1910)

    “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 (1865–1939)

    “I have been in the editorial business going on fourteen years, and it is the first time I ever heard of a man’s having to know anything in order to edit a newspaper.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)