Famous quotes containing the words pounds and/or dry:
“When I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away;”
—A.E. (Alfred Edward)
“Panting, begging I clutched childlike, clutched to the hot sides of
death.
Now I am dry bones and my face a stony skull staring in yellow
surprise at the sun. . . .”
—Richard Wright (18081860)