Opening Bid

Famous quotes containing the words opening and/or bid:

    “The next work of Carlyle will be entitled “Bow-Wow,” and the title-page will have a motto from the opening chapter of the Koran: “There is no error in this Book.””
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)

    “O bid me mount and sail up there
    Amid the cloudy wrack,
    For Peg and Meg and Paris’ love
    That had so straight a back,
    Are gone away, and some that stay
    Have changed their silk for sack.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)