Withered Tree

Famous quotes containing the words withered tree, withered and/or tree:

“I have loved her all my youth,
But now old, as you see;
Love likes not the falling fruit
From the withered tree.
Know that love is a careless child
And forgets promise past;
He is blind, he is deaf when he list
And in faith never fast.”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618)

“O, withered is the garland of the war,
The soldier’s pole is fallen!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Every man is a potential genius until he does something.”
—Herbert Beerbohm, Sir Tree (1853–1917)