White Tie/elements

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

    “The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. In our hands it develops and changes, through more or less arbitrary and deliberate revisions and additions of our own, more or less directly occasioned by the continuing stimulation of our sense organs. It is a pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention. But I have found no substantial reasons for concluding that there are any quite black threads in it, or any white ones.”
    —Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

    “Go tie back your hair, said my mother,
    and Why is your mouth all green?
    Rob Roy, he pulled some clover
    as we crossed the field, I told her.”
    —May Swenson (1919–1995)

    “But all subsists by elemental strife;
    And Passions are the elements of Life.”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)