Rainy Lake City

Famous quotes containing the words rainy, lake and/or city:

    “We are but warriors for the working day.
    Our gayness and our gilt are all besmirched
    With rainy marching in the painful field.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Will lovely, lively, virginal today
    Shatter for us with a wing’s drunken blow
    This hard, forgotten lake haunted in snow
    By the sheer ice of flocks not flown away!”
    —Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–1898)

    “Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.”
    —Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)