Wear Yellow Badge

Famous quotes containing the words wear, yellow and/or badge:

    “Better wear out shoes than sheets.”
    —18th-century Scottish proverb, collected in J. Kelly, Complete Collection of Scottish Proverbs (1721)

    “O yellow eye,
    let me be sick with your heat,
    let me be feverish and frowning.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Signor Antonio, many a time and oft
    In the Rialto you have rated me
    About my moneys and my usances.
    Still have I borne it with a patient shrug,
    For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.
    You call me misbeliever, cutthroat dog,
    And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine,
    And all for use of that which is mine own.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)