Yarrow Stalk Method

Famous quotes containing the words yarrow, stalk and/or method:

    “O haud your tongue, my father dear,
    An’ dinna grieve your Sarah;
    A better lord was never born
    Than him I lost on Yarrow.
    —Unknown. The Dowie Houms o’ Yarrow (l. 53–56)

    I stalk about her door
    Like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks
    Staying for waftage.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
    Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885)