Jones Farm Tenant

Famous quotes containing the words jones, farm and/or tenant:

    “Strange goings on! Jones did it slowly, deliberately, in the bathroom, with a knife, at midnight. What he did was butter a piece of toast. We are too familiar with the language of action to notice at first an anomaly: the ‘it’ of ‘Jones did it slowly, deliberately,...’ seems to refer to some entity, presumably an action, that is then characterized in a number of ways.”
    —Donald Davidson (b. 1917)

    “I farm a pasture where the boulders lie
    As touching as a basketful of eggs....”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “Having been tenant long to a rich Lord,
    Not thriving, I resolved to be bold,
    And make a suit unto him, to afford
    A new small-rented lease, and cancel th’ old.”
    —George Herbert (1593–1633)