Fair Maid of Brittany

Famous quotes containing the words fair and/or maid:

    Monday’s child is fair in face,
    Tuesday’s child is full of grace,
    Wednesday’s child is full of woe,
    Thursday’s child has far to go,
    Friday’s child is loving and giving,
    Saturday’s child works hard for its living;
    And a child that is born on a Christmas day,
    Is fair and wise, good and gay.
    Anonymous. Quoted in Traditions, Legends, Superstitions, and Sketches of Devonshire, vol. 2, ed. Anna E.K.S. Bray (1838)

    Where has Maid Quiet gone to,
    Nodding her russet hood?
    The winds that awakened the stars
    Are blowing through my blood.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)