Lead Pipe

Famous quotes containing the words lead and/or pipe:

    “I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    “Pan’s Syrinx was a girl indeed,
    Though now she’s turned into a reed;
    From that dear reed Pan’s pipe does come,
    A pipe that strikes Apollo dumb;
    Nor flute, nor lute, nor gittern can
    So chant it, as the pipe of Pan;”
    —John Lyly (1553–1606)