One Virgin Too Many

Famous quotes containing the words too many and/or virgin:

    “In using the strong hand, as now compelled to do, the government has a difficult duty to perform. At the very best, it will by turns do both too little and too much. It can properly have no motive of revenge, no purpose to punish merely for punishment’s sake. While we must, by all available means, prevent the overthrow of the government, we should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “This is the month, and this the happy morn,
    Wherein the Son of heav’n’s eternal King,
    Of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born,
    Our great redemption from above did bring.”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)