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)
“The Olympian gods cannot have grand passions because they cannot die.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“every cloud
has its silver
lining but it is
sometimes a little
difficult to get it to
the mint”
—Don Marquis (1878–1937)
“My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem—then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.”
—Erica Jong (b. 1942)
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