Famous quotes containing the words escaped, prison and/or fourteen:
“...I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Job 19:20.
“So must pure lovers souls descend
Taffections, and to faculties,
Which sense may reach and apprehend,
Else a great Prince in prison lies.”
—John Donne (c. 15721631)
“For the first fourteen years for a rod they do whine,
For the next as a pearl in the world they do shine,
For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve,
For the next matrons or drudges they serve,
For the next doth crave a staff for a stay,
For the next a bier to fetch them away.”
—Thomas Tusser (c. 15201580)
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