Small Pearls

Famous quotes containing the words small and/or pearls:

    There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.
    Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

    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)