Short Pitched

Famous quotes containing the words short and/or pitched:

“A short reign does not spare the masses.”
—Publius Papinius Statius (c. 40–96)

“Of the quaking recruit, three pitched battles make a grim grenadier; and he who shrank from the muzzle of a cannon, is now ready to yield his mustache for a sponge.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)