Stuff

Famous quotes containing the word stuff:

    Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.
    Shirley Conran (b. 1932)

    What is love? ‘Tis not hereafter,
    Present mirth hath present laughter.
    What’s to come is still unsure.
    In delay there lies no plenty,
    Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty.
    Youth’s a stuff will not endure.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust,... confess that I am astonished at the power of endurance, to say nothing of the moral insensibility, of my neighbors who confine themselves to shops and offices the whole day for weeks and months, aye, and years almost together. I know not what manner of stuff they are of,—sitting there now at three o’clock in the afternoon, as if it were three o’clock in the morning.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)