Year Ended June

Famous quotes containing the words year, ended and/or june:

    “A man I praise that once in Tara’s Halls
    Said to the woman on his knees, “Lie still,
    My hundredth year is at an end. I think
    That something is about to happen, I think
    That the adventure of old age begins....””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Biography, in its purer form, confined to the ended lives of the true and brave, may be held the fairest meed of human virtue—one given and received in entire disinterestedness—since neither can the biographer hope for acknowledgment from the subject, not the subject at all avail himself of the biographical distinction conferred.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures ...”
    —M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)