Famous quotes containing the words thou art, would i, steadfast, thou and/or art:
“Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
That ever lived in the tide of times.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Chief Justice. Your means are very slender, and your waste is great.
Falstaff. I would it were otherwise. I would my means were greater, and my waist slenderer.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The steadfast shores never once turned aside for us, but still trended as they were made; why then should we always turn aside for them?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past!
Let each new temple, nobler than the last,
Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea!”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)
“You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.”
—Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801)