Yon

Famous quotes containing the word yon:

““Who touches a hair of yon gray head
Dies like a dog! March on!” he said”
—John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

“Where lies the Land to which yon Ship must go?”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

“I have no faith in our hypocritical, false, hysterical, uneducated and lazy intelligentsia when they suffer and complain: their oppression comes from within. I believe in individual people. I see salvation in discrete individuals, intellectuals and peasants, strewn hither and yon throughout Russia. They have the strength, although there are few of them.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)