White Tie/elements

Famous quotes containing the words white, tie and/or elements:

    “Do you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns?
    I have been changed to a hound with one red ear;
    I have been in the Path of Stones and the Wood of Thorns....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Don’t tie your shoes in a melon patch, and don’t adjust your hat under a plum tree.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “There surely is a being who presides over the universe; and who, with infinite wisdom and power, has reduced the jarring elements into just order and proportion. Let speculative reasoners dispute, how far this beneficent being extends his care, and whether he prolongs our existence beyond the grave, in order to bestow on virtue its just reward, and render it fully triumphant.”
    —David Hume (1711–1776)