Starve

Famous quotes containing the word starve:

“If you are going into that line,—going to besiege the city of God,—you must not only be strong in engines, but prepared with provisions to starve out the garrison.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense,
But good men starve for want of impudence.”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)

“Up to her godly garret after sev’n,
There starve and pray, for that’s the way to heav’n.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)