Famous quotes containing the words yard, dogs and/or road:
“For this your mother sweated in the cold,
For this you bled upon the bitter tree:
A yard of tinsel ribbon bought and sold;
A paper wreath; a day at home for me.”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (18921950)
“Hear me, auld Hangie, for a wee,
An let poor, damned bodies bee;
Im sure sma pleasure it can gie,
Evn to a deil,
To skelp an scaud poor dogs like me,
An hear us squeel!”
—Robert Burns (17591796)
“The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy.”
—David Hume (17111776)
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