Mock Drafts

Famous quotes containing the words mock and/or drafts:

    Is there a bridle for this Proteus
    That turns and changes like his draughty seas?
    Or is there none, most popular of men,
    But when they mock us, that we mock again?
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    It is surprising with what impunity and comfort one who has always lain in a warm bed in a close apartment, and studiously avoided drafts of air, can lie down on the ground without a shelter, roll himself in a blanket, and sleep before a fire, in a frosty autumn night, just after a long rain-storm, and even come soon to enjoy and value the fresh air.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)