Famous quotes containing the word faber:
“Galway is a blackguard place,
To Cork I give my curse,
Tralee is bad enough,
But Limerick is worse.
Which is worst I cannot tell,
Theyre everyone so filthy,
But of the towns which I have seen
Worst luck to Clonakilty.”
—Anonymous. Clonakilty, from Geoffrey Grigsons Faber Book of Epigrams and Epitaphs, Faber & Faber (1977)
“If anybody comes to I,
I physics, bleeds, and sweatsem;
If, after that, they like to die,
Why, what care I, I lets em.”
—Anonymous. On Dr. Lettsom, from Geoffrey Grigsons Faber Book of Epigrams and Epitaphs (1977)
“I was a wonderful parent before I had children. I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own.”
—Adele Faber (20th century)
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