Mark Van Helvoirt

Famous quotes containing the words mark van, mark and/or van:

    “I pray that Allah may be moved
    To drop sleep on her eyes because she loved.”
    —Unknown. The Thousand and One Nights.

    AWP. Anthology of World Poetry, An. Mark Van Doren, ed. (Rev. and enl. Ed., 1936)

    “Do you but mark how this becomes the house!
    “Dear daughter, I confess that I am old;
    Age is unnecessary. On my knees I beg
    That you’ll vouchsafe me raiment, bed, and food.””
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “‘Ouch’ is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word.”
    —Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)