Famous quotes containing the words win and/or bowl:
“Pious Selinda goes to prayers,
If I but ask the favour;
And yet the tender fools in tears,
When she believes Ill leave her.
Would I were free from this restraint,
Or else had hopes to win her;
Would she would make of me a saint,
Or I of her a sinner.”
—William Congreve (16701729)
“Three wise men of Gotham
Went to sea in a bowl;
If the bowl had been stronger,
My story would have been longer.”
—Mother Goose (fl. 17th18th century. Three wise men of Gotham (l. 14)
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