Famous quotes containing the words north, central and/or men:
“The Moon’s the North Wind’s cooky,”
—Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)
“Et in Arcadia ego.
[I too am in Arcadia.]”
—Anonymous, Anonymous.
Tomb inscription, appearing in classical paintings by Guercino and Poussin, among others. The words probably mean that even the most ideal earthly lives are mortal. Arcadia, a mountainous region in the central Peloponnese, Greece, was the rustic abode of Pan, depicted in literature and art as a land of innocence and ease, and was the title of Sir Philip Sidney’s pastoral romance (1590)
“These men are worth
Your tears: You are not worth their merriment.”
—Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)