Famous quotes containing the words silk and/or spectre:
“A single strand of silk does not make a thread, nor a single tree a forest.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The acorns not yet
Fallen from the tree
Thats to grow the wood,
Thats to make the cradle,
Thats to rock the bairn,
Thats to grow a man,
Thats to lay me.”
—Unknown. The Cauld Lad of Hilton or, The Wandering Spectre (l. 28)