Lid/land

Famous quotes containing the words lid and/or land:

    ... as lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on.
    Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    We grant no dukedoms to the few,
    We hold like rights and shall;—
    Equal on Sunday in the pew,
    On Monday in the mall.
    For what avail the plough or sail,
    Or land or life, if freedom fail?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)