Famous quotes containing the words trick and/or modes:
“People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)
“Sight and all the other senses are only modes of touch.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)