Famous quotes containing the words higher, mother and/or tongue:
“The higher the climb, the heavier the fall.”
—Chinese proverb.
“I have nothing but the embittered sun;
Banished heroic mother moon and vanished,
And now that I have come to fifty years
I must endure the timid sun.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“There is no tongue that moves, none, none i’the world
So soon as yours, could win me.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)