Yields

Famous quotes containing the word yields:

    As yields no mercy to desert,
    Nor grace to those that crave it.
    Sweet sun, when thou lookest on,
    Pray her regard my moan;
    Sweet birds, when you sing to her,
    To yield some pity, woo her;
    Thomas Lodge (1558?–1625)

    A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
    Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)

    In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)