Famous quotes containing the words upper, prior and/or lake:
“If the upper beams are not straight, the lower beams will be crooked.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?”
—Matthew Prior (1664–1721)
“Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)