French Road Race

Famous quotes containing the words french, road and/or race:

    “The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.”
    —Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)

    “Dear common flower, that grow’st beside the way,
    Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold,
    First pledge of blithesome May,
    Which children pluck, and, full of pride, uphold,
    Hight-hearted buccaneers, o’erjoyed that they
    An Eldorado in the grass have found,
    Which not the rich earth’s ample round
    May match in wealth—thou art more dear to me
    Than all the prouder summer-blooms may be.”
    —James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)

    “Why should a man desire in any way
    To vary from the kindly race of men,
    Or pass beyond the goal of ordinance
    Where all should pause, as is most meet for all?”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)