Short Selling

Famous quotes containing the words short and/or selling:

    “O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave,
    The wise expect, the sorrowful invite,
    And all the good embrace, who know the grave
    A short dark passage to eternal light.”
    —Sir William Davenant (1606–1668)

    “The only person really soiled with trade
    I ever stumbled on in old New Hampshire
    Was someone who had just come back ashamed
    From selling things in California.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)