Fallow Years

Famous quotes containing the words fallow and/or years:

    “Your brother and his lover have embraced.
    As those that feed grow full, as blossoming time
    That from the seedness the bare fallow brings
    To teeming foison, even so her plenteous womb
    Expresseth his full tilth and husbandry.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.”
    —Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)