Bell Brass Snare

Famous quotes containing the words bell, brass and/or snare:

    “The one who should remove the bell is the one who hung it up.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “Thee for my recitative,
    Thee in the driving storm even as now, the snow, the winter-day
    declining,
    Thee in thy panoply, thy measur’d dual throbbing and thy beat
    convulsive,
    Thy black cylindric body, golden brass and silvery steel,”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    “It is a snare for one to say rashly, “It is holy,” and begin to reflect only after making a vow.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 20:25.