Famous quotes containing the words fair and/or maid:
“But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace without grandeur, and itself not new but derivative; a vase of fair outline, but empty,—which whoso sees, may fill with what wit and character is in him, but which does not, like the charged cloud, overflow with terrible beauty, and emit lightnings on all beholders.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“And oh! if my young babe were born,
And set upon the nurse’s knee,
And I my self were dead and gone
For a maid again I’ll never be.”
—Unknown. Waly, Waly (l. 37–40)