Vent Lines

Famous quotes containing the words vent and/or lines:

    Enter Rumor, painted full of tongues.
    Open your ears; for which of you will stop
    The vent of hearing when loud Rumor speaks?
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    GOETHE, raised o’er joy and strife,
    Drew the firm lines of Fate and Life,
    And brought Olympian wisdom down
    To court and mar, to gown and town,
    Stooping, his finger wrote in clay
    The open secret of to-day.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)