Small Pearls

Famous quotes containing the words small and/or pearls:

“We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Or else I thought her supernatural;
As though a sterner eye looked through her eye
On this foul world in its decline and fall,
On gangling stocks grown great, great stocks run dry,
Ancestral pearls all pitched into a sty,
Heroic reverie mocked by clown and knave....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)