Famous quotes containing the words wedlock and/or stand:
“As the ox hath his bow, sir, the horse his curb, and the
falcon her bells, so man hath his desires; and as pigeons
bill, so wedlock would be nibbling.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The farmer imagines power and place are fine things. But the President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)