House Sold

Famous quotes containing the words house and/or sold:

    “It is getting dark and time he drew to a house,
    But the blizzard blinds him to any house ahead.
    The storm gets down his neck in any icy souse
    That sucks his breath like a wicked cat in bed.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “This death’s livery which walled its bearers from ordinary life was sign that they have sold their wills and bodies to the State: and contracted themselves into a service not the less abject for that its beginning was voluntary.”
    —T.E. (Thomas Edward)