L%C3%A9on Blum/second World War

Famous quotes containing the words blum, world and/or war:

    When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.
    —Léon Blum (1872–1950)

    Of old the world on dreaming fed;
    Grey Truth is now her painted toy....
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    Since the war nothing is so really frightening not the dark not alone in a room or anything on a road or a dog or a moon but two things, yes, indigestion and high places they are frightening.
    Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)