Famous quotes containing the words prentice, hall and/or press:
“Auld Nature swears, the lovely Dears
Her noblest work she classes, O:
Her prentice han she tryd on man,
An then she made the lasses, O.”
—Robert Burns (17591796)
“Let us not be too much acquainted. I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures, that he might not want the hint of tranquillity and self-poise.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Our press is certainly bankrupt in the thrill of aweMotherwise reverence: reverence for nickel plate and brummagem. Let us sincerely hope that this fact will remain a fact forever; for to my mind a discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)