Famous quotes containing the words oar and/or folk:
“There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine loveevery man works his oar voluntarily!”
—St. Francis De Sales (15671622)
“the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open eye
So priketh hem nature in hir corages
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?1400)