Hogsheads Quotes

#1. Like it! Yes - the way I'd like a hot stove if I was to set on it long enough. No, Tom, I won't be rich, and I won't live in them cussed smothery houses. I like the woods, and the river, and hogsheads, and I'll stick to 'em, too.

Mark Twain

#2. Let all your crew pull strong, come what will. (Spring, my men, spring!) There's hogsheads of sperm ahead, Mr. Stubb, and that's what ye came for. (Pull, my boys!) Sperm, sperm's the play! This at least is duty; duty and profit hand in hand.

Herman Melville

#3. In my fancy, you perch in the Cooperage & I smell the Peel of the Wood, & the Staves are around you & the white Hogsheads newly bound & the Shavings curled and looped upon the Floor, silver and gold--& you are eating a fat Mushroom.

M T Anderson

#4. I slept about eight hours, as I was afterwards assured; and it was no wonder, for the physicians, by the emperor's order, had mingled a sleepy potion in the hogsheads of wine.

Jonathan Swift

#5. I've never been more in love with anyone nearly half my age than I am today. I'd get married in a minute if I weren't still married to somebody else.

Rod Stewart

#6. I knew he was watching me, possibly hoping that I would look back, but I didn't. I just raised my hand in good faith, believing he would see me waving as I disappeared behind the doors. That guy fucked like a champion.

Truth Devour

#7. Life isn't an emergency. Christ is in charge of every moment of the day; nothing catches Him off guard.

Ann Voskamp

#8. I've been beat up pretty badly. Pretty badly. Yet at the end of the day, everyone says I'm doing a pretty good job.

Charles B. Rangel

#9. During job interviews, when they ask: 'What is your worst quality?', I always say: 'Flatulence'. That way I get my own office.

Dan Thompson

#10. My siblings were a bit younger than me, and I was always entertaining them and making up stories.

Patti Smith

#11. Everyone gets broken. Everyone. Some grow stronger in those breaks. Others never recover.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#12. Happiness is equal to work minus resistance.

Wolfgang Ostwald

#13. The word spinster hid behind it a blazing freedom.

Lauren Groff

#14. He's so fat, he can be his own running mate.

Johnny Carson