Power Drains

Famous quotes containing the words power and/or drains:

    and men strive with each other not for power or the accumulation of paper
    but in joy create for others the house, the poem, the game of
    athletic beauty.

    Then washed in the brightness of the vision,
    I saw how in its radiance would grow and be nourished and suddenly
    burst into terrible and splendid bloom
    the blood-red flower of revolution.
    Dudley Randall (b. 1914)

    I change, and so do women too;
    But I reflect—which women seldom do.
    Tobacco is a filthy weed,
    That from the devil doth proceed;
    That drains your purse, that burns your clothes,
    That makes a chimney of your nose.
    —Anonymous. “Written on a Looking Glass,” from Geoffrey Grigson’s Faber Book of Epigrams and Epitaphs, Faber & Faber (1977)