Pierce

Famous quotes containing the word pierce:

    Let not my beauty’s fire
    Inflame unstaid desire,
    Nor pierce any bright eye
    That wandereth lightly.
    George Peele (1559–1596)

    Dripping water can pierce a stone.
    Chinese proverb.

    Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
    —Franklin Pierce Adams (1881–1960)