Fox Grandeur

Famous quotes containing the words fox and/or grandeur:

“His berd as any sowe or fox was reed,
And therto brood, as though it were a spade.
Upon the cop right of his nose he hade
A werte, and theron stood a toft of herys
Reed as the brustles of a sowes erys.
His nosethirles blake were and wyde.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

“Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)