Famous quotes containing the words meagre, set and/or game:
“All earth was but one thoughtand that was death,
Immediate and inglorious; and the pang
Of famine fed upon all entrailsmen
Died, and their bones were tombless as their flesh;
The meagre by the meagre were devourd,”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“John Brown of Ossawattamie
Who died to set Abstraction free
Stole Washingtons gold-handled sword
Less for the gold than for the Lord....”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
“Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.”
—Virginia Graham (b. 1912)