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)