Famous quotes containing the words thy and/or desire:
“Do not conceale no beauty grace,
That’s either in thy minde or face,
Least vertue overcome by vice,
Make men beleeve no Paradice.”
—Sir Francis Kynaston (1587–1642)
“Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honoured by the name of “speculation”; but which ought to be called Gambling.”
—William Cobbett (1762–1835)