Poor High Altitude

Famous quotes containing the words poor, high and/or altitude:

    “Old Mother Hubbard
    Went to the cupboard
    To get her poor dog a bone:
    But when she got there
    The cupboard was bare,
    And so the poor dog had none.”
    —Sarah Catherine Martin (1768–1826)

    “A ward, and still in bonds, one day
    I stole abroad;
    It was high spring, and all the way
    Primrosed and hung with shade;
    Yet was it frost within,
    And surly winds
    Blasted my infant buds, and sin
    Like clouds eclipsed my mind.”
    —Henry Vaughan (1622–1695)

    “On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its “great intellects.””
    —Karl Marx (1818–1883)