Famous quotes containing the words coarse, salt and/or company:
““... But a coarse old man am I,
I choose the second-best,
I forget it all awhile
Upon a woman’s breast.”
Day-break and a candle end.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Of all the flavors one eats, salt is indispensable; wherever one goes in the world, one’s mother is dearest.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The Bermudas are said to have been discovered by a Spanish ship of that name which was wrecked on them.... Yet at the very first planting of them with some sixty persons, in 1612, the first governor, the same year, “built and laid the foundation of eight or nine forts.” To be ready, one would say, to entertain the first ship’s company that should be next shipwrecked on to them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)