Plain Gut Strings

Famous quotes containing the words plain, gut and/or strings:

    “Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.”
    —Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989)

    “From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.”
    —François Rabelais (1494–1553)

    “How have you left the ancient love
    That bards of old enjoyed in you!
    The languid strings do scarcely move!
    The sound is forced, the notes are few!”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)