Famous quotes containing the words plain and/or leaf:
“I dont choose to say much upon this head,
Im a plain man, and in a single station,
ButOh! ye lords of ladies intellectual,
Inform us truly, have they not hen-peckd you all?”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone elses.”
—Michel de Montaigne (15331592)