Phoenix Desert Dogs

Famous quotes containing the words phoenix, desert and/or dogs:

“And there’s a score of duchesses, surpassing womankind,
Or who have found a painter to make them so for pay
And smooth out stain and blemish with the elegance of his mind:
I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Or were I in the wildest waste,
Sae black and bare, sae black and bare,
The desert were a Paradise,
If thou wert there, if thou wert there.”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)

“Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)