“I don't care whether the glass is half full or half empty as long as there's bacon on the plate.”
Morgan Murphy (food critic) (1972) Southern writer
Source: <i>Bourbon & Bacon</i> (2014), p. 213
“The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words.”
Source: Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings
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Context: Miss Sands told me that Queen Victoria, who was latterly éprise with Disraeli, one day asked him what was his real religion. "Madam," he replied, "I am the blank page between the Old Testament and the New."
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Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
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The Secret of the Sea, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
