Tailor Soldier Spy

Famous quotes containing the words tailor, soldier and/or spy:

    As the saddle makes the horse, so the tailor makes the man.
    Chinese proverb.

    A soldier is better accommodated than with a wife.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Living, just by itself—what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom’s the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you’ve got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that’s terribly exciting—or he’ll come along and nibble your brain.
    Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)