Famous quotes containing the words pipe, build and/or cake:
“Blest are those
Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled
That they are not a pipe for Fortunes finger
To sound what stop she please.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“While ... we cannot and must not hide our concern for grave world dangers, and while, at the same time, we cannot build walls around ourselves and hide our heads in the sand, we must go forward with all our strength to stress and to strive for international peace. In this effort America must and will protect herself.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (18821945)
“It is such a beautiful day I had to write you a letter
From the tower, and to show Im not mad:
I only slipped on the cake of soap of the air
And drowned in the bathtub of the world....”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)