Lead Pipe

Famous quotes containing the words lead and/or pipe:

    “If ye should lead her in a fool’s paradise, as they say, it were a very gross kind of behavior.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “If you would get money as a writer or lecturer, you must be popular, which is to go down perpendicularly.... You are paid for being something less than a man. The state does not commonly reward a genius any more wisely. Even the poet laureate would rather not have to celebrate the accidents of royalty. He must be bribed with a pipe of wine; and perhaps another poet is called away from his muse to gauge that very pipe.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)