Struth Main Stand

Famous quotes containing the words main and/or stand:

“I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.”
—Alan Brien (b. 1925)

“Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his common sense will not refuse them. Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)