Bid Takes

Famous quotes containing the words bid and/or takes:

    O sweet everlasting Voices, be still;
    Go to the guards of the heavenly fold
    And bid them wander obeying your will,
    Flame under flame, till Time be no more....
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    At the punch-bowl’s brink,
    Let the thirsty think,
    What they say in Japan:
    First the man takes a drink,
    Then the drink takes a drink,
    Then the drink takes the man!
    Edward Rowland Sill (1841–1887)