Famous quotes containing the words fountain, pens and/or accept:
“It grazes the horizons, launched above
Mortalityascending emerald-bright,
A fountain at salute, a crown in view”
—Hart Crane (18991932)
“Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore every body, not greatly in fault themselves, to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.”
—Jane Austen (17751817)
“It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession; with totally differing aims the method is the same on both sides.”
—Thomas Hardy (18401928)
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