Hand Dug Wells

Famous quotes containing the words hand, dug and/or wells:

    “High on a throne of his own labors reared.
    At his right hand our young Ascanius sate,
    Rome’s other hope and pillar of the state.
    His brows thick fogs, instead of glories, grace,
    And lambent dullness played around his face.”
    —John Dryden (1631–1700)

    “The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.”
    —Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

    “All through the nineties I met people. Crowds of people. Met and met and met, until it seemed that people were born and hastily grew up, just to be met.”
    —Carolyn Wells (1862–1942)