Emerson Won

Famous quotes containing the words emerson and/or won:

“God! I will not be an owl,
But sun me in the capitol.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“What then in love can woman do?
If we grow fond they shun us.
And when we fly them, they pursue:
But leave us when they’ve won us.”
—John Gay (1685–1732)