Biscuit Flower Hour

Famous quotes containing the words biscuit, flower and/or hour:

    ““He is so polite!”MYes, he is always prepared with a biscuit for Cerberus and is so timid that he assumes everyone is Cerberus, even you and me—that is his “politeness.””
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “With margeran gentle,
    The flower of goodlihood,
    Embroidered the mantle
    Is of your maidenhood.”
    —John Skelton (1460?–1529)

    “In mathematics he was greater
    Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater:
    For he, by geometric scale,
    Could take the size of pots of ale;
    Resolve, by sines and tangents straight,
    If bread and butter wanted weight;
    And wisely tell what hour o’ th’ day
    The clock doth strike, by algebra.”
    —Samuel Butler (1612–1680)