Famous quotes containing the word put:
“The poet sings how the blood flows in his veins. He performs his functions, and is so well that he needs such stimulus to sing only as plants put forth leaves and blossoms.... His song is a vital function like breathing, and an integral result like weight.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“... no gentleman lies, on any occasion, with unmixed pleasure. He feels, rather, as if he had put on rags.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)