Word Ends

Famous quotes containing the words word and/or ends:

“Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“In the case of pirates, say, I would like to know whether that profession of theirs has any peculiar glory about it. It sometimes ends in uncommon elevation, indeed; but only at the gallows.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)