Famous quotes containing the words floor and/or weakness:
“Four and twenty at her back
And they were a’ clad out in green;
Tho the King of Scotland had been there
The warst o’ them might hae been his Queen.
On we lap and awa we rade
Till we cam to yon bonny ha’
Whare the roof was o’ the beaten gold
And the floor was o’ the cristal a’.”
—Unknown. The Wee Wee Man (l. 21–28)
“If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of our strength.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)