Famous quotes containing the words david and/or pears:
“You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so the life of men generally, tried by this standard, is a failure, and bankruptcy may be surely prophesied.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The pears are not seen
As the observer wills.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)