Famous quotes containing the words prefer and/or green:
“Men look on knowledge which they learnor might learnfrom others as they do on the most beautiful structures which are not their own: in outward objects, they would rather behold their own hogsty than their neighbors palace; and in mental ones, would prefer one grain of knowledge gained by their own observation to all the wisdom of a thousand Solomons.”
—Sarah Fielding (17101768)
“If you meet a cross-eyed person
you must plunge into the grass,
alongside the chilly ants,
fish through the green fingernails
and come up with the four-leaf clover....”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
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