Famous quotes containing the words big, ben and/or alarm:
“The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“For of fortunes sharp adversitee
The worst kynde of infortune is this,
A man to han ben in prosperitee,
And it remembren, whan it passed is.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340–1400)
“Dignity takes alarm at the unexpected sound of laughter.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)