Famous quotes containing the words arch and/or rivals:
“Men seem anxious to accomplish an orderly retreat through the centuries, earnestly rebuilding the works behind them, as they are battered down by the encroachments of time; but while they loiter, they and their works both fall prey to the arch enemy.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“What poet would not grieve to see
His brother write as well as he?
But rather than they should excel,
Hed wish his rivals all in Hell.”
—Jonathan Swift (16671745)