Famous quotes containing the word undertake:
“There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Think what a mean and wretched place this world is; that half the time we have to light a lamp that we may see to live in it. This is half our life. Who would undertake the enterprise if it were all?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)