Year Eve

Famous quotes containing the words year and/or eve:

    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)

    When Adam delved and Eve span,
    Who was then the gentleman?
    John Ball (hanged 1381)