Famous quotes containing the word gates:
“These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“The gates of Hell are open night and day;
Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:
But, to return, and view the cheerful skies;
In this, the task and mighty labour lies.”
—Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro] (7019 B.C.)
“Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembershis hopes.”
—Franz Grillparzer (17911872)
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