Action Rod Bends

Famous quotes containing the words action, rod and/or bends:

    “Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o’erstep not the modesty of nature.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “From pleasure of the bed,
    Dull as a worm,
    His rod and its butting head
    Limp as a worm ...”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “A wet sheet and a flowing sea,
    A wind that follows fast
    And fills the white and rustling sail
    And bends the gallant mast;”
    —Allan Cunningham (1784–1842)