Jack Burden

Famous quotes containing the words jack and/or burden:

    That is the man all tattered and torn
    That kissed the maiden all forlorn
    Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. The House That Jack Built (l. 29–30)

    Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love’s gentle sport;
    By his own talents he worked his undoing.
    Oh, you who pass by, if ever you have loved,
    Think it not a burden to wish him calm repose.
    Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)