Fancy Free

Famous quotes containing the words fancy free, fancy and/or free:

    “When I was one-and-twenty
    I heard a wise man say,
    “Give crowns and pounds and guineas
    But not your heart away;
    Give pearls away and rubies,
    But keep your fancy free.”
    But I was one-and-twenty,
    No use to talk to me.”
    —A.E. (Alfred Edward)

    “Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.”
    —Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt (1767–1835)

    “Democratization is not democracy; it is a slogan for the temporary liberalization handed down from an autocrat. Glasnost is not free speech; only free speech, constitutionally guaranteed, is free speech.”
    —Gail Sheehy (b. 1937)