All men of conscience or prudence ply to windward, to maintain their wars to be defensive. — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
England is, after all, the land where children were beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss… — Colin MacInnes Copy Share Image
Lay down the axe; fling by the spade; Leave in its track the toiling plough; The rifle and the bayonet-blade For arms… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
I prefer musicals, because I am the best dancer who ever lived. The best plies, the best sashays, and by far the… — Adam Sandler Copy Share Image
Our freedom is also incomplete, dear compatriots, as long as we are denied our security by criminals who prey on our communities,… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
It is for homely features to keep home,- They had their name thence; coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully? — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Peace was the third emotion. Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Until the end of the Middle Ages, and in many cases afterwards too, in order to obtain initiation in a trade of… — Philippe Aries Copy Share Image
The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet's horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
No one expects a woman busy at her sewing to pay attention to what’s being said around her. Nevermind if a man’s… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
When you find a chillness upon your souls, and that your former heat begins to abate, ply yourselves with warm clothes, get… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
We go in withering July To ply the hard incessant hoe; Panting beneath the brazen sky We sweat and grumble, but we… — Ruth Pitter Copy Share Image
I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
England is, after all, the land where children are beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss… — Colin MacInnes Copy Share Image
For this is the truth about our soul, he thought, who fish-like inhabits deep seas and plies among obscurities threading her way… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, "Young man, ply your book diligently now,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
So schaff' ich am sausenden Webstuhl der Zeit. Thus at Time's humming loom I ply. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Wherever a ship ploughs the sea, or a plough furrows the field; wherever a mine yields its treasure; wherever a ship or… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
WEATHERS This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly; And… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
This doesn't mean you're getting a discount." Audrey heaved a mock sigh. "Oh well. I guess I'll have to ply you with… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
