Famous quotes containing the words peterson, trumpet, kings and/or jousts:
“Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda,
Who’ll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?
And he sang as he watched and waited while his billy boiled:
‘Who’ll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?’”
—Andrew Barton Peterson (1864–1941)
“The dead have been awakened—shall I sleep?
The world’s at war with tyrants—shall I crouch?
The harvest’s ripe—and shall I pause to reap?
I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch;
Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear,
Its echo in my heart.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)
“Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)