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Famous quotes containing the word sing:

    Yet to sing love,
    love must first shatter us.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
    Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8 B.C.)

    I wish I had the voice of Homer
    To sing of rectal carcinoma.
    —J.B.S. (John Burdon Sanderson)