Famous quotes containing the words pair and/or called:
“Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all
tongues are called fools.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The style, the house and grounds, and “entertainment” pass for nothing with me. I called on the king, but he made me wait in his hall, and conducted like a man incapacitated for hospitality. There was a man in my neighborhood who lived in a hollow tree. His manners were truly regal. I should have done better had I called on him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)