Sore

Famous quotes containing the word sore:

    A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
    Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

    But the cheerful Spring came kindly on
    And show’rs began to fall:
    John Barleycorn got up again
    And sore surpris’d them all.
    Robert Burns (1759–1796)

    But, though myself be gilty in that sinne,
    Yet can I maken other folk to twinne
    From avaryce, and sore to repente.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)