Famous quotes containing the words year and/or petty:
“The first year was like icing.
Then the cake started to show through.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewise it is a sign of an unproductive person to pursue such trifles.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)