Yields

Famous quotes containing the word yields:

“Three parts of him
Is ours already, and the man entire
Upon the next encounter yields him ours.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“All the world over, the picturesque yields to the pocketesque.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“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)