Famous quotes containing the words root, beer and/or stand:
“In dark places and dungeons the preachers words might perhaps strike root and grow, but not in broad daylight in any part of the world that I know.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.”
—Charles Lamb (17751834)
“Here I stand your slave,
A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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