Famous quotes containing the words true and/or score:
“Who should come to my lodge this morning but a true Homeric or Paphlagonian man,he had so suitable and poetic a name that I am sorry I cannot print it here,a Canadian, a woodchopper and post-maker, who can hole fifty posts in a day, who made his last supper on a woodchuck which his dog caught.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“And theres a score of duchesses, surpassing womankind,
Or who have found a painter to make them so for pay
And smooth out stain and blemish with the elegance of his mind:
I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)