Tattered Tom Series

Famous quotes containing the words tattered, tom and/or series:

    Through tattered clothes great vices do appear;
    Robes and furred gowns hide all. Place sin with gold,
    And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks:
    Arm it in rags, a pigmy’s straw does pierce it.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    The palsy plagues my pulses
    —Unknown. Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song (l. 37)

    Galileo, with an operaglass, discovered a more splendid series of celestial phenomena than anyone since.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)