tent quotes

  • Marriage is not a house or even a tent it is before that, and colder.

    - Margaret Eleanor Atwood
      Procedures from Underground,'Habitation'.

  • Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside pissing in.

    - Lyndon B(aines) also called LBJ Johnson
    Of J Edgar Hoover. Quoted in David Halberstam TheBest and the Brightest (1971), ch.20.

  • If a man have a tent made in linen of which the apertures haveall beenstopped up, and it be twelve braccia across and twelve in depth, he will be able to throw himself down from any great height without sustaining injury.

    -Leonardo daVinci
    Description of a parachute. Notebooks. Quoted in Vincent Cronin The Flowering of the Renaissance (1969).

  • I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

    - Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
      The Ballad of Reading Gaol, pt.1, stanza 3.

  • Our master Caesar is in the tent Where the maps are spread, His eyes fixed upon nothing, A hand under his head. 934 Like a long-legged fly upon the stream His mind moves upon silence.

    -W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats
      'Long-Legged Fly', l.5^10. Collected in Last Poems (1939).

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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