Woman Thou Art

Famous quotes containing the words thou art, woman, thou and/or art:

    Affliction is enamoured of thy parts,
    And thou art wedded to calamity.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Tailor’s work—the finishing of men’s outside garments—was the “trade” learned most frequently by women in [the 1820s and 1830s], and one or more of my older sisters worked at it; I think it must have been at home, for I somehow or somewhere got the idea, while I was a small child, that the chief end of woman was to make clothing for mankind.
    Lucy Larcom (1824–1893)

    O Mary, canst thou wreck his peace,
    Wha for thy sake wad gladly die?
    Or canst thou break that heart of his,
    Whase only faut is loving thee?
    Robert Burns (1759–1796)

    To fill the hour,—that is happiness; to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval. We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)