Sends

Famous quotes containing the word sends:

    Constant Penelope sends to thee, careless Ulysses.
    Write not again, but come, sweet mate,
    Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

    He’s leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German tourists are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropf’s and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!
    Billy Wilder (b. 1906)

    When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.
    Karl Kraus (1874–1936)