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)

    “A man of sense and energy, the late head of the Farm School in Boston Harbor, said to me, “I want none of your good boys,Mgive me the bad ones.” And this is the reason, I suppose, why, as soon as the children are good, the mothers are scared, and think they are going to die.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “An’ when the earth’s as cauld’s the mune
    An’ a’ its folk are lang syne deid,
    On coontless stars the Babe maun cry
    An’ the Crucified maun bleed.”
    —Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978)