Tells

Famous quotes containing the word tells:

    I knew very well that this hope was chimerical. I was like a pauper who mingles fewer tears with his dry bread if he tells himself that at any moment a stranger will bequeath to him his fortune. We must all, in order to make reality more tolerable, keep alive in us a few little follies.
    Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

    White man tells me—hunh—
    Damn yo’ soul;
    White man tells me—hunh—
    Damn yo’ soul;
    Got no need, bebby,
    To be tole.
    Sterling Allen Brown (b. 1901)

    Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we fight with cranes; it is error upon error, and clout upon clout, and our best virtue has for its occasion a superfluous and evitable wretchedness. Our life is frittered away by detail.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)