Tells Mark

Famous quotes containing the words tells and/or mark:

“These examples, though foreign to us, are not strange, if we consider, as our experience often tells us, how custom dulls the senses.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)