Single Reeds

Famous quotes containing the words single and/or reeds:

    One is no number, mayds are nothing then,
    Without the sweet societie of men.
    Wilt thou live single still? one shalt thou bee,
    Though never-singling Hymen couple thee.
    Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)

    Myself now and myself a while ago are indeed two; but when better, I simply cannot say. It would be fine to be old if we traveled only toward improvement. It is a drunkard’s motion, staggering, dizzy, wobbling, or that of reeds that the wind stirs haphazardly as it pleases.
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)