Fig Tree Pocket

Famous quotes containing the words fig, tree and/or pocket:

    “A fig for
    The seal of fire,
    Death hairy-heeled, and the tapped ghost in wood,
    We make me mystic as the arm of air,
    The two-a-vein, the foreskin, and the cloud.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “A single soldier does not make a general, just as a single tree does not make a forest.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)