Famous quotes containing the words modes and/or apply:
“I cannot beat off
Invincible modes of the sea, hearing:
Be a man my son by God.
He turned again
To the purring jet yellowing the murder story,
Deaf to the pathos circling in the air.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)