Famous quotes containing the words joint stock, open, joint and/or stock:
“There is no such thing as the Queens English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“The Moor is of a free and open nature,
That thinks men honest that but seem to be so,
And will as tenderly be led by the nose
As asses are.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Whats a joint of mutton or two in a whole Lent?”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“I consider that a mans brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (18591930)