Bruce and Laing

Famous quotes containing the words bruce and/or laing:

    Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.
    Indian proverb, quoted in Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, ch. 30, “From the Notebooks” (1987)

    Women receive
    the insults of men
    with tolerance,
    having been bitten
    in the nipple
    by their toothless gums.
    —Dilys Laing (1906–1960)