Brimstone Head Folk

Famous quotes containing the words brimstone, head and/or folk:

    “To awake your dormouse valor, to put fire in your heart, and brimstone in your liver.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcæ, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveller’s cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “the yonge sonne
    Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,
    And smale foweles maken melodye,
    That slepen al the nyght with open eye—
    So priketh hem nature in hir corages—
    Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)