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)
“Today is made of yesterday, each time I steal
toward rites I do not know, waiting for the lost
ingredient, as if salt or money or even lust
would keep us calm and prove us whole at last.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Attending upon a prince is as dangerous as keeping company with a tiger.”
—Chinese proverb.