Court Tales

Famous quotes containing the words court and/or tales:

“To rear a tiger is to court calamity.”
—Chinese proverb.

“The very nursery tales of this generation were the nursery tales of primeval races. They migrate from east to west, and again from west to east; now expanded into the “tale divine” of bards, now shrunk into a popular rhyme.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)