Famous quotes containing the words earl of, earl, mar and/or centuries:
“But oh, how slowly minutes roll
When absent from her eyes,
That feed my love, which is my soul:
It languishes and dies.”
—John Wilmot, 2d Earl Of Rochester (1647–1680)
“But love must be aggressively translated into simple justice.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)
“Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Through centuries he lived in poverty.
God only was his only elegance.
Then generation by generation he grew
Stronger and freer, a little better off.
He lived each life because, if it was bad,
He said a good life would be possible.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)