Lot

Famous quotes containing the word lot:

“...I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives’ tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock around a brilliant one. It is but fair to say that, after getting out in the world, I had never seen this happen ....”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)

“Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another’s.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)

“He
And his lot will all go down the long slide
Like free bloody birds.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)