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)
“Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.”
—Truman Capote (19241984)