Mistletoe Quotes
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From time immemorial the mistletoe has been the object of superstitious veneration in Europe.
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More Mistletoe Quotes
The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly-branch shone on the old oak wall.
thomas haynes bayly— The Mistletoe Bough, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
It is not a new opinion that the Golden Bough was the mistletoe . True, Virgil does not identify but only compares it with the mistletoe. But this may be only a poetical device to cast a mystic glamour over the humble plant.
james frazer— Chapter 68, The Golden Bough
A barren detested vale, you see it is; The trees, though summer, yet forlorn and lean, O'ercome with moss and baleful mistletoe.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus (c. 1584-1590), Act II, scene 3, line 93.
