Fee Tail Estate

Famous quotes containing the words fee, tail and/or estate:

“..for a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread, but the wife of another stalks a man’s very life.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 6:26.

“It is better to be the head of the chicken than the tail of an ox.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content,
The quiet mind is richer than a crown;
Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spent,
The poor estate scorns Fortune’s angry frown.
Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss,
Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss.”
—Robert Greene (1558?–1592)