Tenth Day

Famous quotes containing the words tenth day, tenth and/or day:

    “The tenth day of Christmas,
    My true love sent to me
    Ten pipers piping,”
    —Unknown. The Twelve Days of Christmas (l. 64–66)

    “Of Ickworth’s boys, their father’s joys,
    There is but one a bad one;
    The tenth is he, the parson’s fee,
    And indeed he is a sad one.
    No love of fame, no sense of shame,
    And a bad heart, let me tell ye:
    Without, all brass; within, all ass,
    And the puppy’s name is Felly.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
    Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
    To the last syllable of recorded time,
    And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
    The way to dusty death.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)