Shift

Famous quotes containing the word shift:

“I will use the world and sift it,
To a thousand humors shift it,
As you spin a cherry.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Let us not be dainty of leave-taking,
But shift away.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“They shift coffee-houses and chocolate-houses from hour to hour, to get over the insupportable labour of doing nothing.”
—Richard Steele (1672–1729)