Plies Quotes

#1. All men of conscience or prudence ply to windward, to maintain their wars to be defensive.

Roger Williams

#2. Those who reach for the Sun, usually drop the world.

Lionel Suggs

#3. The wounded surgeon plies the steel
That questions the distempered part;
Beneath the bleeding hands we feel
The sharp compassion of the healer's art
Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.

T. S. Eliot

#4. And still the Weaver plies his loom,
whose warp and woof is wretched Man
Weaving th' unpattern'd dark design,
so dark we doubt it owns a plan

Richard Francis Burton

#5. As Shakespeare put it in 'King Lear,' the policeman who lashes the whore has a hot need to use her for the very offense for which he plies the lash.

Christopher Hitchens

#6. I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce scenes symbolized by the very slow washing of dishes.

Teju Cole

#7. ....he has done nothing but prove to me that not only is he a good man, he's a man madly in love with my daughter, and will do anything to protect her.

Sam Crescent

#8. I am God and my lawyers are my 12 disciples ... do not f**k with me!

Courtney Love

#9. 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 snow the leaves.

A.E. Housman

#10. If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.

Akira Kurosawa

#11. I suppose I do have a suitor, but I'm not really used to him yet. He's terribly charming and he plies me with delicious meals, but I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me.

Mary Ann Shaffer

#12. Always check for traps, left is always right unless there's a middle, always put your healer in the best armor and wear your magic rings on your toes instead of your fingers ... What else? ... Always have rope.

Kate Milford

#13. Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

E.T.A. Hoffmann

#14. No one finds time for prayer. You either take time for it or you don't get it.

Joan D. Chittister

#15. Peace was the third emotion. Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life.

Virginia Woolf

#16. I prefer musicals, because I am the best dancer who ever lived. The best plies, the best sashays, and by far the best-smelling Capezios.

Adam Sandler