Famous quotes containing the words laugh and/or tracks:
“Irrational streams of blood are staining earth;
Empedocles has thrown all things about;
Hector is dead and theres a light in Troy;
We that look on but laugh in tragic joy.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner. At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes; and if you follow on to the existing fields, you may often find the change half complete.”
—Walter Bagehot (18261877)
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