Misty Mountain

Famous quotes containing the words misty mountain, misty and/or mountain:

    Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund day
    Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
    I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    It is when we try to grapple with another man’s intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.
    Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)

    The mountain and the squirrel
    Had a quarrel,
    And the former called the latter “Little Prig”;
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)