Famous quotes containing the words long, island and/or cannibal:
“I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from others lands, but a continent that joins to them.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
“Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)