Operation Badger Catch

Famous quotes containing the words operation, badger and/or catch:

    “You may read any quantity of books, and you may almost as ignorant as you were at starting, if you don’t have, at the back of your minds, the change for words in definite images which can only be acquired through the operation of your observing faculties on the phenomena of nature.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    “When you are about to badger the weak,
    Then imagine yourself before a more powerful man.”
    —Tiruvalluvar (c. 5th century A.D.)

    “Go, and catch a falling star,
    Get with child a mandrake root,
    Tell me, where all past years are,
    Or who cleft the devil’s foot,
    Teach me to her mermaids singing,
    Or to keep off envy’s stinging,
    And find
    What wind
    Serves to advance an honest mind.”
    —John Donne (c. 1572–1631)