Famous quotes containing the words lapel and/or button:
“Here also was made the novelty Chestnut Bell which enjoyed unusual popularity during the gay nineties when every dandy jauntily wore one of the tiny bells on the lapel of his coat, and rang it whenever a story-teller offered a chestnut.”
—Administration for the State of Con, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side?from sorrow to sorrow?to button up one cause of vexation!and unbutton another!”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
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