Golden Calves

Famous quotes containing the words golden and/or calves:

    “The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “Away with us he’s going,
    The solemn-eyed:
    He’ll hear no more the lowing
    Of the calves on the warm hillside
    Or the kettle on the hob
    Sing peace into his breast,”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)