Fancy Free

Famous quotes containing the words fancy free, fancy and/or free:

    “When I was one-and-twenty
    I heard a wise man say,
    “Give crowns and pounds and guineas
    But not your heart away;
    Give pearls away and rubies,
    But keep your fancy free.”
    But I was one-and-twenty,
    No use to talk to me.”
    —A.E. (Alfred Edward)

    “You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come:
    Knock as you please, there’s nobody at home.”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    “Whatever does not spring from a man’s free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very being, but still remains alien to his true nature; he does not perform it with truly human energies, but merely with mechanical exactness.”
    —Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt (1767–1835)