Dame Mary

Famous quotes containing the words dame and/or mary:

“One who can find lemons sweet and grapes sour is ready for Dame Fortune.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Miss Mary Emerson is here,—the youngest person in Concord, though about eighty,—and the most apprehensive of a genuine thought; earnest to know of your inner life; most stimulating society; and exceedly witty withal. She says they called her old when she was young, and she has never grown any older. I wish you could see her.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)