David Ben

Famous quotes containing the words david and/or ben:

    “The Eastern steamboat passed us with music and a cheer, as if they were going to a ball, when they might be going to—Davy’s locker.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “For of fortunes sharp adversitee
    The worst kynde of infortune is this,
    A man to han ben in prosperitee,
    And it remembren, whan it passed is.”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340–1400)