Famous quotes containing the words concave, hollow and/or earth:
“I think he is not a pick-purse nor a horse-stealer, but
for his verity in love, I do think him as concave as a covered goblet or a worm-eaten nut.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.”
—Nicholas Breton (c. 15451626)
“A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of worlds. He consults them instinctively upon awaking and in one second reads in them the point of the earth that he occupies, the time past until his arousal; but their ranks can be mingled or broken.”
—Marcel Proust (18711922)
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