Famous quotes containing the words dirty and/or rotten:
“He shakes the dust from off his feet
And shambles down the dirty street
The last man in the town, they said,
Whod shot a hundred Yankees dead.”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
“Long enough I had heard of irrelevant things; now at length I was glad to make acquaintance with the light that dwells in rotten wood. Where is all your knowledge gone to? It evaporates completely, for it has no depth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)