Famous quotes containing the words give and/or birth:
“O, give me thy hand,
One writ with me in sour misfortune’s book!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes
Lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes;
Antiquity and birth are needless here;
‘Tis impudence and money makes a peer.”
—Daniel Defoe (1660–1731)