Famous quotes containing the words gordian knot, gordian, knot and/or untied:
“Turn him to any cause of policy,
The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,
Familiar as his garter.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Turn him to any cause of policy,
The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,
Familiar as his garter.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Not the less does nature continue to fill the heart of youth with suggestions of his enthusiasm, and there are now men,—if indeed I can speak in the plural number,—more exactly, I will say, I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible, that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest of sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“That when that knot’s untied that made us one,
I may seem thine, who in effect am none.
And if I see not half my dayes that’s due,
What nature would, God grant to yours and you;”
—Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612–1672)