Famous quotes containing the words van and/or ven:
“I passed a tomb among green shades
Where seven anemones with down-dropped heads
Wept tears of dew upon the stone beneath.”
—Unknown. The Thousand and One Nights.
AWP. Anthology of World Poetry, An. Mark Van Doren, ed. (Rev. and enl. Ed., 1936)
“Ven youre a married man, Samivel, youll understand a good many things as you dont understand now; but vether its worth goin through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said ven he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter of taste.”
—Charles Dickens (18121870)