Test Jack

Famous quotes containing the words test and/or jack:

    Tried by a New England eye, or the more practical wisdom of modern times, they are the oracles of a race already in its dotage; but held up to the sky, which is the only impartial and incorruptible ordeal, they are of a piece with its depth and serenity, and I am assured that they will have a place and significance as long as there is a sky to test them by.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    This is the maiden all forlorn
    That milked the cow with the crumpled horn
    Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. The House That Jack Built (l. 22–23)