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)
“We are now going through a period of demolition. In morals, in social life, in politics, in medicine, and in religion there is a universal upturning of foundations. But the day of reconstruction seems to be looming, and now the grand question is: Are there any sure and universal principles that will evolve a harmonious system in which we shall all agree?”
—Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)
“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)
“Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)