Poor Knights

Famous quotes containing the words poor and/or knights:

“Even a poor man can receive honors.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“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)