Famous Quotes
- "How fleeting are all human passions compared to the massive continuity of ducks."
- "She went to bed thinking more about another person than about herself. This goes to prove that even minor poetry may have its practical uses."
- "It may, perhaps, be embarrassing for a solitary man to walk across a wide quadrangle under a fire of glances from a collection of collegiate females; but it is child's play compared, for example, with the long trek from the pavilion at Lord's to the far end of the pitch, with five wickets down and ninety needed to save the follow-on. Thousands of people then alive might have recognized that easy and unhurried stride and confident carriage of the head."
- "However loudly we may assert our own unworthiness, few of us are really offended by hearing the assertion contradicted by a disinterested party."
- "Placetne, Magistra? Placet."
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or quotes:
“My neighbors tell me of their adventures with famous gentlemen and ladies, what notabilities they met at the dinner-table; but I am no more interested in such things than in the contents of the Daily Times. The interest and the conversation are about costume and manners chiefly; but a goose is a goose still, dress it as you will.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say “I think,” “I am,” but quotes some saint or sage.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)