Pail

Famous quotes containing the word pail:

    “Jack and Jill
    Went up the hill,
    To fetch a pail of water;
    Jack fell down,
    And broke his crown,
    And Jill came tumbling after.”
    —Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. Jack and Jill (l. 1–6)

    “[O]ur people are steadily increasing their spending for higher standards of living ... the slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.”
    —Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)

    “The well was dry beside the door,
    And so we went with pail and can
    Across the fields behind the house
    To seek the brook if still it ran....”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)