Famous quotes containing the words favourite, french and/or singer:
“Ye Cupids, droop each little head,
Nor let your wings with joy be spread:
My Lesbias favourite bird is dead,
Whom dearer than her eyes she loved.”
—Catullus [Gaius Valerius Catullus] (8454 B.C.)
“When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. Thats progress?”
—Marilyn French (b. 1929)
“In the race for wealth, a neighbor tries to outdo his neighbor, but this strife is good for men. For the potter envies potter, and the carpenter the carpenter, and the beggar rivals the beggar, and the singer the singer.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)