Lead Pipe

Famous quotes containing the words lead and/or pipe:

    Many will come in my name and say, I am he!’ and they will lead many astray.
    Bible: New Testament, Mark 13:6.

    If you would get money as a writer or lecturer, you must be popular, which is to go down perpendicularly.... You are paid for being something less than a man. The state does not commonly reward a genius any more wisely. Even the poet laureate would rather not have to celebrate the accidents of royalty. He must be bribed with a pipe of wine; and perhaps another poet is called away from his muse to gauge that very pipe.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)