Single Grain Scotch

Famous quotes containing the words single, grain and/or scotch:

    “It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make a sally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero is the sole patron of music.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “In Rangoon the heat of noon
    Is just what the natives shun.
    They put their Scotch or rye down
    And lie down.”
    —Noël Coward (1899–1973)