City Mill Lock

Famous quotes containing the words city, mill and/or lock:

“Follow good people and you will learn to be good; follow beggars and you will sleep outside the city gates.”
—Chinese proverb.

“My temptation is quiet.
Here at life’s end
Neither loose imagination,
Nor the mill of the mind
Consuming its rag and bone,
Can make the truth known.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Nae living man I’ll love again,
Since that my lovely knight is slain.
Wi ae lock of his yellow hair
I’ll chain my heart for evermair.”
—Unknown. The Lament of the Border Widow (l. 25–28)