Famous quotes containing the words penalty and/or minutes:
“My excuse for not lecturing against the use of tobacco is, that I never chewed it; that is a penalty which reformed tobacco-chewers have to pay; though there are things enough I have chewed which I could lecture against.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Intellectuals have opinions on subjects they just heard about five minutes ago.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)