Famous quotes containing the words small, claim and/or courts:
“Youpoor and obscure, and small and plain as you areI entreat to accept me as a husband.”
—Charlotte Brontë (18161855)
“May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?”
—Plato (c. 427347 B.C.)
“But O, young beauty of the woods,
Whom Nature courts with fruits and flowers,
Gather the flowers, but spare the buds;
Lest Flora, angry at thy crime
To kill her infants in their prime,
Do quickly make the example yours;
And ere we see,
Nip in the blossom all our hopes and thee.”
—Andrew Marvell (16211678)
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