Wide

Famous quotes containing the word wide:

    The Americans ... have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication.
    W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)

    It was a wide and moony grin
    Together peaceful and obscene;
    Howard Nemerov (b. 1920)

    Romeo. Courage, man, the hurt cannot be much.
    Mercutio. No, ‘tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door, but ‘tis enough, ‘twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)