Famous quotes containing the words pass, break and/or ups:
“An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it!”
—Horace Walpole (17171797)
“Saint, saintliness is a long way off.
It is like a tall and beautiful palm tree.
If you climb it, you drink the love potion,
but if you fall you break into pieces.”
—Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.
“I reckon a body that ups and tells the truth when he is in a tight place, is taking considerable many resks; though I aint had no experience, and cant say for certain.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
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