The Gay Blade

Famous quotes containing the words gay and/or blade:

    For hym was levere have at his beddes heed,
    Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed,
    Of Aristotle and his philosophie,
    Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie:
    But al be that he was a philosophre,
    Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340–1400)

    Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
    Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)