Famous quotes containing the words world and/or marathon:
“On the loftiest throne in the world we are still sitting only on our own rump.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“The mountains look on Marathon—
And Marathon looks on the sea;
And musing there an hour alone,
I dreamed that Greece might still be free;
For standing on the Persians’ grave,
I could not deem myself a slave.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)