Famous quotes containing the words penalty and/or strokes:
“The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
“It was the bad ax-helve someone had sold me
“Made on machine,” he said, plowing the grain
With thick thumbnail to show how it ran
Across the handle’s long-drawn serpentine,
Like the two strokes across a dollar sign.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)