Breaks

Famous quotes containing the word breaks:

    From Nature’s chain whatever link you strike,
    Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
    Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    At it in its familiar twang: “My friend,
    Cut your own throat. Cut your own throat. Now! Now!”
    September twenty-second, Sir, the bough
    Cracks with the unpicked apples, and at dawn
    The small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn.
    Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

    Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
    Alexander Pope (1688–1744)