(4 quotes found)
“He would answer to `Hi!' or to any loud cry, / Such as `Fry me!' or `Fritter my wig!' / To `What-you-may-call-um!' or `What-was-his-name!' / But especially `Thing-um-a-jig!'”
Lewis Carroll
“We handed this administration the most favorable foreign policy cards of any administration since World War II and unfortunately one-by-one-by-one they frittered them away.”
Dan Quayle
“Our life is frittered away by detail ... simplify, simplify.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Whitebait is New Zealand's caviar and is special. Everybody likes eating whitebait, especially lightly cooked in fritters.”
Alan Bollard