Exchanging Pieces

Famous quotes containing the words exchanging and/or pieces:

    Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
    Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    America was too big to have been discovered all at one time. It would have been better for the graces if it had been discovered in pieces of about the size of France or Germany at a time.
    Samuel Butler (1835–1902)