Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or march:
“Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks;
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.”
—Anonymous. Late 19th century ballad.
The quatrain refers to the famous case of Lizzie Borden, tried for the murder of her father and stepmother on Aug. 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts. Though she was found innocent, there were many who contested the verdict, occasioning a prodigious output of articles and books, including, most recently, Frank Spierings Lizzie (1985)
“Then you should say what you mean, the March Hare went on.
I do, Alice hastily replied; at leastat least I mean what I saythats the same thing, you know. Not the same thing a bit! said the Hatter. Why you might just as well say that I see what I eat is the same thing as I eat what I see!”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)