Poor Knights

Famous quotes containing the words poor and/or knights:

“How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The threadbare trees, so poor and thin,
They are no wealthier than I;
But with as brave a core within
They rear their boughs to the October sky.
Poor knights they are which bravely wait
The charge of Winter’s cavalry,
Keeping a simple Roman state,
Discumbered of their Persian luxury.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)