Hollow

Famous quotes containing the word hollow:

“While the hollow oak our palace is,
Our heritage the sea.”
—Allan Cunningham (1784–1842)

“As well have a talon as a finger, a muzzle as a mouth,
as well have a hollow as a heart.”
—Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)

“Just so hollow and ineffectual, for the most part, is our ordinary conversation. Surface meets surface. When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)