Mercury Grand Marquis/second Generation 1992%e2%80%931997

Famous quotes containing the words mercury, grand, marquis and/or generation:

    “The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day.
    What instruments we have agree
    The day of his death was a dark cold day.”
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

    “Loneliness is more likely to lead to fussy housekeeping than to grand views of the Universe.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “now and then
    there is a person born
    who is so unlucky
    that he runs into accidents
    which started out to happen
    to somebody else”
    —Don Marquis (1878–1937)

    “By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the flies of a summer.”
    —Edmund Burke (1729–1797)