Famous quotes containing the words tristram shandy, life, opinions and/or tristram:
“Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“Voyage through death
to life upon these shores.”
—Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)
“Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.”
—Dame Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)
“Sleep, beloved, such a sleep
As did that wild Tristram know
When, the potion’s work being done,
Roe could run or doe could leap
Under oak and beechen bough,
Roe could leap or doe could run....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)