Leagues

Famous quotes containing the word leagues:

“By a knight of ghosts and shadows
I summon’d am to a tourney
Ten leagues beyond the wide world’s end:
Methinks it is no journey.”
—Unknown. Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song (l. 57–60)

“Good news about someone never gets past the door, but bad news will travel a thousand leagues away.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Struck in the wet mire
Four thousand leagues from the ninth buried city
I thought of Troy, what we had built her for.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)