“Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!”
Herman Melville
“Now tall Agrippa lived close by, - / So tall he almost touched the sky; / He had a mighty inkstand too, / In which a great goose-feather grew.”
Heinrich Hoffman
“The pattern is that every 2,000 to 3,000 years, there is a monstrous eruption (of Mount Vesuvius). And it has now been about 2,000 years.”
Michael Sheridan
“This eruption is much larger than the ones that are currently anticipated at Vesuvius. What would you do with the evacuation of 3 million people? They're not coming back. There won't be anything to come back to.”
“I'll take Vesuvius!”
Enrico Caruso
“A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion's claw”
English Proverb
“QUILL, n. An implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an ass. This use of the quill is now obsolete, but its modern equivalent, the steel pen, is wielded by the same everlasting Presence.”
Ambrose Bierce
