Adam Green Argues

Famous quotes containing the words adam, green and/or argues:

    “When Adam delved and Eve span,
    Who was then the gentleman?”
    —John Ball (hanged 1381)

    “There was an old man lived out in the wood,
    His trade was a-cutting of Broom, green Broom;
    He had but one son without thrift, without good,
    Who lay in his bed till ‘twas noon, bright noon.”
    —Unknown. Broom, Green Broom (l. 1–4)

    “Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)