John Wears Boots

Famous quotes containing the words john, wears and/or boots:

    ““You the one, I the few”
    said John Adams
    speaking of fears in the abstract
    to his volatile friend Mr. Jefferson,”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    “An evil moon bleeds drops of death.
    The earth burns brown.
    Grass shrivels and dries to a yellowish mass.
    Earth wears a dun-colored dress
    like an old woman wooing the sun to be her lover,
    be her sweetheart and her husband bound in one.”
    —Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)

    “In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, alack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit?”
    —Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898)