Margaret Fairless Barber

Famous quotes containing the words fairless barber, margaret, fairless and/or barber:

    To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
    —Margaret Fairless Barber (1869–1901)

    There’s Margaret and Marjorie and Dorothy and Nan,
    A Daphne and a Mary who live in privacy;
    One’s had her fill of lovers, another’s had but one,
    Another boasts, “I pick and choose and have but two or three.”
    If head and limb have beauty and the instep’s high and light
    They can spread out what sail they please for all I have to say....
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
    —Margaret Fairless Barber (1869–1901)

    No barber shaves so close but another finds his work.
    English proverb, collected in George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs (1640)