Famous quotes containing the word neck:
“The seven deadly sins.... Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Mans neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.”
—George Bernard Shaw (18561950)
“The wisdom of history, how she takes
Each epoch by the neck and, growling, shakes
It like a rat while she faintly mews.”
—Allen Tate (18991979)