“I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.”
C. S. Forester
“The Princess and the Pea.”
Hans Christian Andersen
“I'd as soon listen to dried peas in a bladder, as listen to your thoughts.”
William Butler Yeats
“The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea/ In a beautiful pea-green boat,/ They took some honey, and plenty of money,/ Wrapped up in a five-pound note.”
Edward Lear
“Here are sweet-peas, on tip-toe for a flight:/ With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white,/ And taper fingers catching at all things, / To bind them all about with tiny rings.”
John Keats
“Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dry food”
Welsh Proverb
“They're like two peas in a pod”
Proverb
