Clay Court Season

Famous quotes containing the words clay, court and/or season:

    “Protoplasm, simple or nucleated, is the formal basis of all life. It is the clay of the potter: which, bake it and paint it as he will, remains clay, separated by artifice, and not by nature from the commonest brick or sun-dried clod.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)

    “To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster: Either condemn or crown your hatred.”
    —Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)

    “Only he who has had the good fortune to read them in the nick of time, in the most perceptive and recipient season of life, can give any adequate account of them.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)