Holy Spear

Famous quotes containing the words holy and/or spear:

    Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it.
    Italian proverb, pt. 5, epigraph, Graham Hancock, Lords of Poverty (1989)

    Lift not thy spear against the Muses’ bower:
    The great Emathian conqueror bid spare
    The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower
    Went to the ground; and the repeated air
    Of sad Electra’s poet had the power
    To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare.
    John Milton (1608–1674)