Rochester Adams High

Famous quotes containing the words rochester, adams and/or high:

“The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life,
Is the best can be said for a very good wife.”
—John Wilmot, Earl Of Rochester (1647–1680)

“If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male as the superfluity of her world. Perhaps the best starting-point for study of the Virgin would be a practical acquaintance with bees, and especially with queen bees.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

“By a high star our course is set,
Our end is Life. Put out to sea.”
—Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)